agglutinate

adj

1. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
2. Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning.

   “an agglutinate language”

   “an agglutinate family of languages”

verb

1. (transitive)To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

   “This is a medicine, and hath a mud of that nature, that it both agglutinateth and hardneth that whereupon it is applied.”

   “This is farther evident in the making glue of the dry skins of beasts and of fishes; and paste of starch; whose agglutinating quality is owing solely to the proportions of water absorbed, or intermixed by infusion, maceration, or decoction.”

   “The mud of the streets of London is then merely the dust or detritus of the granite of which they are composed, agglutinated either with rain or the water from the watering-carts.”

   “[…] sea water in which unfertilized eggs have been left for some time […] agglutinates the spermatozoa by their heads, increases their motility, and keeps them active for a longer time.”

2. (intransitive)To form clusters or lumps; to clump.

   “It is […] a strong and valuable coal which does not agglutinate in burning.”

   “If the test cells are contaminated with bacteria, they may agglutinate even in the absence of specific antibodies.”

   “In this test, if the [red blood cells] agglutinate, it indicates that antibodies are present in the serum.”

3. To form through agglutination.

noun

1. (countable)A clump of agglutinated material.

   “In some soils, agglutinates are a major constituent.”

2. (uncountable)Agglutinated material.

   “The formation of agglutinate is more abundant in mature regolith.”