American English pronunciation
How to pronounce clustered
IPA transcription: [k'lʌstɚd]
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Verb
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come together as in a cluster or flock
“The poets constellate in this town every summer”
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gather or cause to gather into a cluster
“She bunched her fingers into a fist”
Adjective
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growing close together but not in dense mats
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clustered together but not coherent
“an agglomerated flower head”
Usage examples
- In the related genus "Scilla", the stamens are not flattened or clustered together.
- Such diseases clustered around the tracks of railways.
- Fresh cases, still able to walk, they clustered about the spokesman.
- Bankstown's central business district is clustered around Bankstown railway station.
- Settlement ended up clustered around a series of military fortifications.