glandulousadj.
/ˈɡlandjʊləs/ Physiology. ? Obsolete.
a. Of or pertaining to a gland or glandule; having the nature of a gland; containing, or consisting of, glands.
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kernelled1398
kernelly1398
glandulousc1400
adenose?1541
glandinous?1541
kernellish1543
adenous1655
glandular1668
glanduliferous1702
adenoid1813
glandiform1842
adenoidal1847
glanduligerous1857
interglandular1873
intraglandular1892
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 28 Anoþer maner fleisch þer is þat is glandelose, þat is as it were accornis.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 267 Al þe fleisch of þe tetis is glandelous.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Ciij The other is glandulouster, odenose [? read glandulous or adenose], or cruddy and kyrnele, as is the flesshe of the ballockes, of the dugges and the flesshe of the emuntores.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 272 Then must you fall to giuing hir of those glandulous kirnels of the Weather.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden lxviii. 129 The tuberous and glandulous Cloggs being not much unlike those hard swellings.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 57 It [the gallinazo] has a wrinkled, glandulous and rough skin.
1801 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 251 Its substance is glandulous and compact.
1846 W. M. Buchanan Technol. Dict. Glandular, Glandulous.
b. Botany. = glandulose adj.
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1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxix. 455 Having the lower serratures glandulous.
Derivatives
ˈglandulousness n.
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1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
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