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Clump   /kləmp/   Listen
noun
Clump  n.  
1.
An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
2.
A cluster; a group; a thicket. "A clump of shrubby trees."
3.
The compressed clay of coal strata.


verb
Clump  v. t.  To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.


Clump  v. i.  To tread clumsily; to clamp. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Clump" Quotes from Famous Books



... wealth of leaves arrayed, With flower and fruit and light and shade, Look where the young Rose-apple glows; What loaded boughs the Mango shows; See, waving in the western wind The light leaves of the Tamarind, And mark that giant Peepul through The feathery clump of tall bamboo.(369) Look, on the level lands above, Delighting in successful love In sweet enjoyment many a pair Of heavenly minstrels revels there, While overhanging boughs support Their swords and mantles as they sport: Then see that pleasant shelter where Play the bright Daughters ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... the moment made his heart beat fast, and his eyes glittered as he gazed; but there was nothing to see now save a beautiful green clump of thorn bush, with the great grey granite block in ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... and a full two hundred down the hillside, the deserter of the Aurangabadis pitched forward, rolled down a red rock, and lay very still, with his face in a clump of blue gentians, while a big raven flapped out of the pine wood ...
— Rudyard Kipling • John Palmer
... bush, Mrs. Pascoe," said Mrs. Durrant, pointing the parasol with which she had rapped on the door at the fine clump of St. John's wort that grew beside it. Mrs. Pascoe ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... found one nest of this Bulbul at Kossoom: it was of the ordinary Bulbul type and placed in a small but dense clump of cane, about 18 inches from the ground. The parent birds were very vociferous ...
— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume


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