Definition of cluster

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Cluster (n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands..

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Tuft :: Tuft (n.) A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants..
Gatling Gun :: Gatling gun () An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired..
Locusta :: Locusta (n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.
Glomerate :: Glomerate (a.) Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.
Crown-imperial :: Crown-imperial (n.) A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves..
Clump :: Clump (n.) A cluster; a group; a thicket.
Cactus :: Cactus (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America..
Hill :: Hill (n.) The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t..
Hamlet :: Hamlet (n.) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
Amorpha :: Amorpha (n.) A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo..
Bulb :: Bulb (n.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid..
Rosulate :: Rosulate (a.) Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
Striction :: Strict (a.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters..
Twitch :: Twitch (v. t.) To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes..
Cluster :: Cluster (n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands..
Verticillaster :: Verticillaster (a.) A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl..
Laminaria :: Laminaria (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp..
Glomerule :: Glomerule (n.) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood..
Bush :: Bush (n.) A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs..
Rookery :: Rookery (n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
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