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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.
2. 2
   a compacted or sessile cyme wordnet
3. 3
   A glomerulus.

Etymology

Diminutive of Latin glomus ball.

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