Definition of "agglutinate" []

• To cause to adhere, as with glue. (verb-transitive)
• Linguistics To form (words) by combining words or words and word elements. (verb-transitive)
• Physiology To cause (red blood cells or bacteria) to clump together. (verb-transitive)
• To join together into a group or mass. (verb-intransitive)
• Linguistics To form words by agglutination. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A red-hot molten mess shot through with glassy globules known as agglutinate, common on the moon but rare on Earth."
• "The fact appears to be, that these are what are now called agglutinate languages, and, like those of all savage tribes, in a continual course of alteration -- also often using a long periphrastic description to convey an idea or form a name."
• "Again, by other chemical substances produced in it, the blood may, without actually killing the invading bacteria, only paralyse them, and cause them to "agglutinate" (that is, to adhere to one another as an inactive "clot" or "lump")."