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A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

In clusters.

Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.

Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.

(Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

ite or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

A small cluster of stars.

The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds

pon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes.