Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
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- adjective obsolete Gathered or formed into a
ball orround mass .
Etymologies
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Latin glomerosus, from glomus. See glome.
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Examples
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And they saw various trees bending under the weight of fruits in all seasons, and ever bright with flowers -- such as mangoes and hog-plums and bhavyas and pomegranates, citrons and jacks and lakuchas and plantains and aquatic reeds and parvatas and champakas and lovely kadamvas and vilwas, wood-apples and rose-apples and kasmaris and jujbes and figs and glomerous figs and banians and aswatthas and khirikas and bhall atakas and amalkas and bibhitakas and ingudas and karamardas and tindukas of large fruits -- these and many others on the slopes of the
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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