Agglutinate

ag-glōōt′in-āt, v.t. to cause to adhere by glue or cement.— adj. Agglut′inant , uniting or causing to stick together.— ns. Agglut′inate , Agglut′i native , a cla ification formerly much used in contrast to inflectional , to describe such languages as Turkish, which show, in the words of Whitney, an inferior degree of integration in the elements of their words, or of unification of words, the suffixes and prefixes retaining a certain independence of one another and of the root or stem to which they are added; Agglutinā′tion , the act of uniting, as by glue: adhesion of parts.— adj. Agglut′i native , tending to or having power to cause adhesion. [L. agglutināre — ad , to, gluten , glue. See Glue .]