clumperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

clumper (複数形 clumpers)

1. A grass or other plant that tends to form clumps.
   • 2007 July 5, Anne Raver, “A Cane the World Can Lean On”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Bamboo can be as delicate as the umbrella bamboo, Fargesia murieliae, a clumper with soft pea-green foliage and a weeping habit, or as heroic as Phyllostachys edulis, whose sturdy olive-green canes can grow 70 feet in a single season.

語源 2

Compare German klumpern (“to clod”). See clump (noun).

動詞

clumper (三人称単数 現在形 clumpers, 現在分詞 clumpering, 過去形および過去分詞形 clumpered)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To form into clumps or masses.
   • 1647, Henry More, A Platonick Song of the Soul

     Vapours […] clumper'd in balls of clouds.

アナグラム

• crumple