conglobulate
verbEtymology From con- + globule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
1
Rare To collect together into a compact round mass.
- ‘Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the red of a river.’1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 393:
- Related terms
- conglobulation