English
glomuliferous
Glomuliferous comes from Latin glomus ‘a ball’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomus‘a ball’
- Englishearliest quotation 1848glomuliferous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEglomus‘a ball’
- Englishearliest quotation 1848glomuliferous
Earliest quotation: 1848, Samuel Rowe: “The bright green and glomuliferous parmelia , and the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gel- ‘form into a ball’
children, child, cold, clean, chill, cloud, globe, gel, jelly, cluster, colt, clot, gelatin, clout, gelato, clough, glebe, ganglion, clod, klutz, globus, globulin, 47 more
through Latin glomus ‘a ball’
Today it means
adj Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin glomus / glomuliferous