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agglutinant |
agglutinate |
agglutinating activity |
agglutination |
agglutination test |
Agglutinative
| agglutinin
| agglutinogen
| aggrace
| aggrade
| aggrandise
Agglutinative
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Agglutinative has 2 senses
- agglutinative(s = adj.all) polysynthetic - forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning; Array Derived form verb agglutinate1
- agglutinative(s = adj.all) agglutinate - united as if by glue; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
Agglutinative, a. [Cf. F. agglutinatif.].
- Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive. [1913 Webster]
- Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. [1913 Webster]"In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds." [1913 Webster]"Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages." [1913 Webster]"Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots." [1913 Webster]
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