clusteredadj.
/ˈklʌstəd/ 1.
a. Growing or placed in a cluster, forming a cluster; grouped, closely collected.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathering closely together > gathered closely together
clusteredc1400
sadc1450
constellated1638
constellatea1657
undistributed1869
retractile1881
clumped1887
nucleated1897
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 367 Mony clustered clowde clef alle in clowtez.
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 44 Ere they through the clustred Crouds could get.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 18 Cluster'd Grapes shall blush on every Thorn.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 204 Heads 1/ 8 in. long, sessile, clustered.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 142 Clustered crystals, or klinorhombic solitary crystals.
b. Architecture. clustered pillar (column, pier): ‘several slender pillars or shafts attached to each other so as to form one’ (Gwilt Encycl. Archit.).
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1874 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 4) i. iii. 98 The pillars are clustered, and clustered vaulting-shafts are introduced.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 78 The great feature of Gothic architecture, the clustered pier.
2. Furnished or covered with clusters.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [adjective] > furnished with clusters
clustereda1644
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) xi. 5 Now maist thou sit beneath thy clustred Vine.
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 438 The cluster'd vine there hardly tempts The traveller's hand.
1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 93 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.
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the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > clustered, crowded, or growing in tufts
caespitose1793
glomerate1793
coacervate1845
clustered1861
stipate1871
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 342 Campanula glomerata, Clustered Bell-flower.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 296 Juncus, Clustered Alpine Rush.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [adjective] > coagulating > coagulated
liveryeOE
livered?a1300
coagulatec1386
curdya1398
clotteredc1405
curdeda1425
quailed1440
congealed1541
clustereda1547
cloddered1558
clodded1562
cluttered1577
quarry1587
curdled1590
quarred1599
settled1600
clotted1605
coagulated1633
curdly1664
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Bii His crisped lockes al clustred with his blood.
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. D iiijv Persely helpeth the hardenes of the pappes that cometh of claustered [1578 Lyte Dodoens 606 clustered] mylke.
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