agminate
English
Alternative forms
- agminated
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin agminātus, from the Classical Latin agmen (“a troop”, oblique stem: agmin-) + -ātus (“-ate”). Compare the Latin agminātim (“in hosts”, “in hordes”, adverb).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăgʹmĭnāt, IPA(key): /ˈæɡmɪneɪt/
Adjective
agminate (comparative more agminate, superlative most agminate)
- (biology) Grouped together.
- the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine
Translations
biology: grouped together
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for agminate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- agmatine, antigame, enigmata
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aɡ.miˈnaː.te/, [aɡ.mɪˈnaː.tɛ]
Adjective
agmināte
- vocative singular masculine of agminātus