glandular

Mid 18th century borrowing from French glandulaire, from glandule (“small gland”) +‎ -aire (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix), from Latin glandulae (“glands of the throat”); equivalent to glandule +‎ -ar.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.djʊl.ə/, /ˈɡlan.d͡ʒʊl.ə/, /ˈɡlan.ʒʊl.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlæn.d͡ʒəl.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -ændjʊlə(ɹ), -ændʒʊlə(ɹ), -ænʒʊlə(ɹ)

glandular (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Pertaining to a gland or glands.

   a glandular disorder

   1. Having the characteristics or function of a gland.
2. Innate, inherent.
   • 1948, Newsweek:

     […] the almost glandular Russian instinct for adventure and romance.

3. Physical, sexual.

• glandulous

glandular (plural glandulars)

1. A food supplement made from glands.
   • 1982, Vegetarian Times, number 61, page 6:

     Then Mr. Rothschild states that there is a wealth of studies attesting to the beneficence of glandulars in the human diet, only to fall into the same error he lays on Dr. Holub: failing to cite a single one.

   • 2010, Roy Mankovitz, The Wellness Project, page 158:

     An interesting event happened in my house that buttressed my appreciation of glandulars. I previously mentioned our cats, raised on a raw food diet that includes as many glands and other organs as we can obtain, […]

   • 2014, Judy Morgan, From Needles to Natural: Learning Holistic Pet Healing, page 44:

     I started reading about acupuncture, acupressure, flower essences, Chinese herbals, American herbals, Ayurvedic herbals, raindrop therapy, essential oils, aromatherapy, homeopathy, glandulars, vitamins, folk remedies, […]

• “glandular”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “glandular”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ɡlən.duˈlar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ɡlən.duˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡlan.duˈlaɾ]

glandular m or f (masculine and feminine plural glandulars)

1. glandular

• glàndula

• “glandular”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

glandular m or f (plural glandulares)

1. (anatomy) glandular (pertaining to glands)

Borrowed from French glandulaire.

glandular m or n (feminine singular glandulară, masculine plural glandulari, feminine and neuter plural glandulare)

1. glandular

Borrowed from New Latin glandulāris, from Latin glandula (“little acorn”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡlanduˈlaɾ/ [ɡlãn̪.d̪uˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: glan‧du‧lar

glandular m or f (masculine and feminine plural glandulares)

1. glandular

• “glandular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024