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agglutinant | agglutinate | agglutinating activity | agglutination | agglutination test | agglutinative | agglutinin | agglutinogen | aggrace | aggrade | aggrandise

agglutinative

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Adjective
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ag=glu=ti=na=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

agglutinativea. [Cf. F. agglutinatif.].
  •  Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound.  [1913 Webster]
    "In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds."  [1913 Webster]
    "Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages."  [1913 Webster]
    "Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots."  [1913 Webster]

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