clump
IPA: kɫˈʌmp
noun
- A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
- A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
- A dull thud.
- The compressed clay of coal strata.
- A small group of trees or plants.
- (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
- (transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
- (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
- (transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
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Examples of "clump" in Sentences
- They clumped together in clusters.
- The bug bites are actually the clumps of mast cells.
- The leaves grow in a dense basal clump at the ground.
- The people saw the animal clump in the middle of the woods.
- Instead, they clump on the surface of the ocean in pumice rafts.
- Morph and Clump locate Zeus and Quantum by the side of the lake.
- The base of the woomera has a clump of this resin attached to it.
- On the scale of the clumps within the rings there is much empty space.
- Colonies are arborescent, with highly clumped, irregular bushy branches.
- On the scale of the clumps within the rings there is a lot of empty space.