adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to a gland or glands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: medicine, sciences
Examples
- a glandular disorder
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
glandular
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡlan.djʊl.ə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡlan.d͡ʒʊl.ə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡlan.ʒʊl.ə/
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General-American: /ˈɡlæn.d͡ʒəl.ɚ/
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rhymes with -ændjʊlə(ɹ)
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adj
Meaning 2
Pertaining to a gland or glands.
Having the characteristics or function of a gland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Innate, inherent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Physical, sexual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A food supplement made from glands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 6
relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- glandular malfunctions
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Mid 18th century borrowing from French glandulaire, from glandule (“small gland”) + -aire (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix), from Latin glandulae (“glands of the throat”); equivalent to glandule + -ar.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: жлезист (žlezist) — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Catalan: glandular — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Chinese Mandarin: 腺的 (xiàn de) — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Czech: žlázový — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Czech: glandulární — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Dutch: ingeboren — pertaining to a gland or glands
- French: glandulaire — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Galician: glandular — pertaining to a gland or glands
- German: glanduläre — pertaining to a gland or glands
- German: drüsig — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Ancient Greek: ἀδενοειδής (adenoeidḗs) — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Hindi: स्रावी (srāvī) — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Ido: glandala — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Italian: ghiandolare — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Japanese: 腺状の (senjō no) — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Korean: 선 (seon) — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Latin: glandularis — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Lithuanian: liaukinis — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Portuguese: glandular — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Russian: желе́зистый (želézistyj) — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Russian: гландуля́рный (glanduljárnyj) — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Spanish: glandular — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Turkish: bezsel — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Volapük: glanik — pertaining to a gland or glands
- Welsh: chwarennol — pertaining to a gland or glands
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