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clustered, ppl. a.|ˈklʌstəd|
Also 6 (in sense 4) claustered.
[f. cluster + -ed.]
1. Growing or placed in a cluster, forming a cluster; grouped, closely collected.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 367 Mony clustered clowde clef alle in clowtez. 1627Drayton Agincourt ccxvii, Ere they through the cluster'd crouds could get. 1697Dryden Virg. Ecl. iv. 34 Cluster'd Grapes shall blush on every Thorn. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 204 Heads 1/8 in. long, sessile, clustered. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. & Ferns 142 Clustered crystals, or klinorhombic solitary crystals.
b. Arch. clustered pillar (clustered column, clustered pier): ‘several slender pillars or shafts attached to each other so as to form one’ (Gwilt Encycl. Archit.).
1874Parker Illust. Gothic Archit. i. iii. 98 The pillars are clustered, and clustered vaulting-shafts are introduced. 1879Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. II. 78 The great feature of Gothic architecture, the clustered pier.
2. Furnished or covered with clusters.
1645Quarles Sol. Recant. xi. 5 Now maist thou sit beneath thy clustred Vine. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath 438 The cluster'd vine there hardly tempts The traveller's hand. 1855M. Arnold Poems, Gipsy Child 6 The swinging waters and the cluster'd pier.
3. In the names of various species of plants that produce their flowers or fruit in clusters.
1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 342 Campanula glomerata, Clustered Bell-flower. Ibid. V. 296 Juncus, Clustered Alpine Rush.
†4. Coagulated, clotted. Obs.
a1547Surrey æneid ii. 352 His crisped lockes all clustred with his blood. 1551Turner Herbal i. D iiij b, Persely helpeth the hardenes of the pappes that cometh of claustered [1578 Lyte Dodoens 606 clustered] mylke. |