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Clustered   /klˈəstərd/   Listen
verb
Cluster  v. t.  To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. "Not less the bee would range her cells,... The foxglove cluster dappled bells." "Or from the forest falls the clustered snow."
Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.


Cluster  v. i.  (past & past part. clustered; pres. part. clustering)  To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. "His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's." "The princes of the country clustering together."


adjective
clustered  adj.  
1.
Growing close together but not in dense mats; of plants.
2.
Occurring close together in bunches or clusters.
Synonyms: bunched, bunchy.
3.
Clustered together but not coherent.
Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, aggregate.





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"Clustered" Quotes from Famous Books



... him; and the forest and its strange voices seemed a dark, opposing influence, which strove to take possession of her heart and to wrest her away from him forever; she helplessly clung to him; every thought and emotion of her soul clustered about him, and every hope of life and happiness was ...
— Tales From Two Hemispheres • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... by Sir John and other veterans. The other breach was assigned to the Dutch and Scotch-black Norris scowling at them the while with jealous eyes; fearing that they might get the start of the English party, and be first to enter the town. A party of noble volunteers clustered about Sir John-Lord Burgh, Sir Thomas Cecil, Sir Philip Sidney, and his brother Robert among the rest—most impatient for the signal. The race was obviously to be a sharp one. The governor-general forbade these violent demonstrations, but Lord Burgh, "in a most ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... autumn leaves. They fell across Howat's face and eddied about the horses' legs. The grey bank deepened in space, the sun vanished; the wind was bleak. It seemed to Howat Penny that the world had changed, its gold stricken to dun and gaunt branches, in an instant. The road descended to the clustered ...
— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer
... following order: the skin of the belly, the groin, and the inside of the fore arm, becomes of a redder colour than in its natural state, and sprinkled with small red spots irregularly rounded. They are sometimes isolated, sometimes clustered together. The near approach of this eruption is announced by ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt
... lifted up his voice, and it reached the thousands of those who clustered upon the slopes. It seemed still and small, yet it came to them faintly like the voice of one speaking from a mountain-top ...
— Nada the Lily • H. Rider Haggard


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