say it: uh-GLOO-ti-nayt
agglutinate is a verb and adjective meaning "string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
united as if by glue
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for agglutinate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.