Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-GLOM'ER-ATE, a. [L. conglomero; con and glomero, to wind into a ball, from glomus, a ball, a clew. See Glomerate.]

1. Gathered into a ball or round body. A conglomerate gland is composed of many smaller glands, whose excretory ducts unite in a common one, as the liver, kidneys, pancreas, parotids, &c. Each little granulated portion furnishes a small tube, which unites with other similar ducts, to form the common excretory duct of the gland. – Coxe. Encyc.
2. In botany, conglomerate flowers grow on a branching peduncle or foot-stalk, on short pedicles, closely compacted together without order; opposed to diffused. – Martyn.
3. Conglomerate rocks. [See Pudding-stone.]