Definition of Glomerule. Meaning of Glomerule. Synonyms of Glomerule

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Definition of Glomerule

Glomerule
Glomerule Glom"er*ule, n. [Dim. fr. L. glomus ball.] 1. (Bot.) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood. 2. (Anat.) A glomerulus.

Meaning of Glomerule from wikipedia

- inflorescences. Very small flowers sit in one- to three- (rarely eight-) flowered glomerules in the axils of short bracts or in the upper half of the inflorescence...
- stems and arising from upper leaf axils. The glomerules usually crowd on the branch. Within a glomerule, flowers may be at different stages of development:...
- terminal and lateral. They consist of ****ately or paniculately arranged glomerules of flowers. Plants are monoecious (rarely dioecious). In monoecious plants...
- plants are usually dioecious, (rarely monoecious). The male flowers are in glomerules forming interrupted terminal spike-like panicles. They consist of 4-5...
- v t e Disease of the kidney glomerules Primarily nephrotic Primarily nephritic, RPG General glomerulonephritis glomerulonephrosis...
- arranged leaves are linear. The disc-shaped flower heads are clustered in glomerules 1 or 2 centimeters wide. There are layers of tiny woolly phyllaries around...
- linear-lanceolate, with dark reddish petioles. Inflorescences show many globose glomerules, 3–5 mm in diameter. The fruits are edible and can be used to make wine...
- but no ray florets. The heads are clumped together in groups called "glomerules," hence the scientific name of the species. The Plant List, Brickellia...
- lateral, free, sericeous. The inflorescence is a subsessile, dense, a glomerule-like spike, 1–2 cm long. It is few- to 25-flowered, with bracts lanceolate...
- capsule. globose Also globoid, globular. Approximately spherical. glomerule Plural glomerules. Also Latin glomerulus with plural glomeruli. A dense clump or...