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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
glandular
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
glandular fever
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fever
▪ Damon had given Jasper measles, glandular fever, two bouts of flu and two colds since Easter.
▪ Occasionally a person will suffer from a long and unpleasant illness like glandular fever, but this is rare.
▪ He contracted glandular fever and viral meningitis.
▪ The 19-year-old Boat Club starlet was struck down by glandular fever last summer, and spent a frustrating time on the sidelines.
▪ These symptoms looked just like those of glandular fever, and that was what her doctor diagnosed.
▪ But she suffered a setback when a bout of glandular fever looked like bringing her season to an abrupt halt.
▪ This virus causes glandular fever and is also associated with a human cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma.
▪ Or was he stricken with glandular fever?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Damon had given Jasper measles, glandular fever, two bouts of flu and two colds since Easter.
▪ He contracted glandular fever and viral meningitis.
▪ He is swept from day to day by waves of glandular emotion.
▪ Occasionally a person will suffer from a long and unpleasant illness like glandular fever, but this is rare.
▪ She suffers from a glandular condition and is pushing three hundred pounds.
▪ The 19-year-old Boat Club starlet was struck down by glandular fever last summer, and spent a frustrating time on the sidelines.
▪ The area covered by gross injury was expressed as a percentage of the area of the glandular mucosa of the rat stomach.
▪ The mussels were so enormous I suspected they had some kind of overactive glandular condition.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glandular

Glandular \Glan"du*lar\, a. [Cf. F. glandulaire. See Glandule.] Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
glandular

1740, from French glandulaire, from glandule "small gland" (16c.), from Latin glandula (see gland).

Wiktionary
glandular

a. Pertaining to a gland or glands.

WordNet
glandular

adj. relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland; "glandular malfunctions"

Usage examples of "glandular".

ISP division is concentrating on some kind of electrochemical glandular stimulation.

He dodged the landship, danced through a maze of roaring, honking ground cars, reached the sidewalk, and then he could pause, his lungs spasming for air, his heart pounding, his stomach aching with the force of the glandular action.

We shall see in the next chapter that the secretion from the glandular hairs of Pinguicula certainly dissolves animal matter.

The open door was guarded by a huge hulking figure with bulging muscles and glandular n problems.

Instead of replicating itself locally within the glandular tissue, like normal fauna viruses, it sends out spores.

The flowerpeduncles, sepals, and petals, are studded with glandular hairs, like those on the leaves.

Utricularia nelumbifolia, 442 Gelatin, impure, action on Drosera, 80 , pure, its digestion by Drosera, 110 Genlisea africana, 451 filiformis, 451 Genlisea ornata, structure of, 446 , manner of capturing prey, 450 Glandular hairs, absorption by, 344 , summary on, 353 Globulin, its digestion by Drosera, 120 Gluten, its digestion by Drosera, 117 Glycerine, inducing aggregation in Drosera, 52 , action on Drosera, 212 Gold chloride, action on Drosera, 184 GorupBesanez on the presence of a solvent in seeds of the vetch, 362 Grass, decoction of, action on Drosera, 84 Gray, Asa, on the Droseraceae, 2 Groenland, on Drosera, 1, 5 Gum, action of, on Drosera, 77 Guncotton, not digested by Drosera, 125 H.

Haematin, its digestion by Drosera, 121 Hairs, glandular, absorption by, 344 , , summary on, 353 Heat, inducing aggregation in Drosera, 53 , effect of, on Drosera, 66 , , on Dionaea, 294, 319 Heckel, on state of stamens of Berberis after excitement, 43 Hofmeister, on pressure arresting movements of protoplasm, 61 Holland, Mr.

The above named three genera, namely Drosophyllum, Roridula, and Byblis, which appear to have retained a primordial condition, still bear glandular hairs on both surfaces of their leaves.

Center in Providence, in concave recesses along the Pizzitola tunnels between special entrance and Visitors' locker room, even in a specially enlarged and sensually-appointed locker next to the power forward's locker in the VLR, all prepared like the Brown cheerleaders and Pep Squad, who've been induced to do the game pantyless, electrolysized and splits-prone to help lend a pyrotechnic glandular atmosphere to the power forward's whole playing-environment prepared to make the penultimate sacrifice for squad, school, and influential members of the Brown Alumni Bruins Boosters Assoc.

Center in Providence, in concave recesses along the Pizzitola tunnels between special entrance and Visitors' locker room, even in a specially enlarged and sensually-appointed locker next to the power forward's locker in the VLR, all prepared like the Brown cheerleaders and Pep Squad, who've been induced to do the game pantyless, electrolysized and splits-prone to help lend a pyrotechnic glandular atmosphere to the power forward's whole playing-environment prepared to make the penultimate sacrifice for squad, school, and influential members of the Brown Alumni Bruins Boosters Assoc. So that Gwendine O'Shay then switches back to Fackelmann and OKs the mammoth bet and point-spread, as like who wouldn't, with that kind of mole-reported fix in the works.

And was that body, with its own peculiar glandular secretions dripping into the dark bloodstream, its own distinct and configurated brain, its own system of nerves and signals and responses—was that domineering body responsible for everything, dragging its helpless owner into murderous violence?

Glandular hyper‑activity in a wicker amphora: eccrine and apocrine glands poured forth sweat and stink, as if I were trying to shed my fate through my pores.

For a year Perec had been afflicted by Epstein-Barr virus, a debilitating form of glandular fever, and had only just returned to the track.

Every feature was enlarged and distorted as though by some virulent glandular disease.