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Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.

Having two glands, as a plant.

Glandular inflammation. Dunglison.

Glandlike; glandular.

The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.

A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.

A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.

A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk.

One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.

A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.

ar stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.

A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.

A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.

A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.

Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs. -- n.

The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.

A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.

ead of stone. -- Shell flower. (Bot.) Same as Turtlehead. -- Shell gland. (Zoöl.) (a) A glandular organ in which the rudimentary shell is formed in embryonic mollusks. (b) A glandular organ which secretes the eggshells of various worms, crustacea, mollusks, etc. -- Shell gun, a cannon suitable for throwing shells.…