glandular

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: glan=du=lar

CIDE DICTIONARY

glandular, a. [Cf. F. glandulaire. See Glandule.].

 Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

glandular, adj. of or relating to a gland or glands.

Idiom

glandular fever an infectious viral disease characterized by swelling of the lymph glands and prolonged lassitude, infectious mononucleosis (see MONONUCLEOSIS).

Etymology

F glandulaire (as GLAND(1))

THESAURUS

glandular

adrenal, affectional, affective, demonstrative, eccrine, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive, endocrine, exocrine, feeling, glandulous, gonadal, gut, holocrine, humoral, luteal, merocrine, of soul, ovarian, overdemonstrative, pancreatic, prostatic, soulful, splenetic, thymic, thyroidal, visceral