glomerule

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glomerule

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Diminutive of Latin glomus ball.

noun glomerules

  1. A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood. glomerules of the thallus
  2. A glomerulus. The function of the glomerule is to separate the superfluous water from the blood
  3. A globule of metal.

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@misc{glomerule_2026,
  title = {glomerule},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/glomerule},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}