clumper

Something that forms clumps.

The clumper, MP, had no glucosyltransferase activity on the surface but did in the Golgi, while the non-clumper, HR, had it on the surface and not in the Golgi.

[…] the same molecualr ^([sic]) weight as a clumper did not aggregate in broth (Fig. 4) .

Something that forms clumps.

Bell compared the success of two species with contrasting architecture (a clumper and a runner form) as they grew either in competition with each other or alone.

In contrast, clumper growth may have decreased in marl because they are less physiologically integrated, limiting the clonal growth of ramets produced in resource-poor marl patches.

Something that forms clumps.

As an old clumper myself, I'm just now beginning to see how I must sometimes split and next time I want to tell you more about that.'

The archaeologist stated, "It all depends on whether you were a splitter or a clumper, and asked what was I?" I replied "I was a clumper and did not see any purpose in misnaming artifacts for the sale of posters."

A part of a device that is used for the formation of clumps.

This was then pumped up to an elevated tank and piped from there through a constant-level tank to the dropper tubes of the clumper placed in a row above the drum.

The larger claw of a lobster.

"Reckon he's getting on for five pounds," said Richard eagerly. "Look at the size of that clumper claw ! " The two asymmetric claws of the lobster were known as the pincher and the clumper, and the clumper was always bigger .

To form into clumps or masses.

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

An' dere at evemen, I da goo, A-hoppèn auver ghiates an' bars, By twinklen light o' winter stars, When snow da clumper to my shoe;

To move heavily; to clomp or clump.

The palms of TV looked especially welcome as the plane clumpered down on a hazy tarmac in a greenish, weedy field.

As the tired horse clumpered into Dark, I ate the wursttail, arranged bread, butter and milk for pastor, so he not need to go to bed hungry.

To make a clumping noise.

The cold, indeed, was now becoming so intense as to congeal and skim over all the pools and still eddies of the river, and make solid ice along the shores of the rapid currents of the stream; while even the ground was fast becoming so frozen as to clumper and sound beneath the hurrying tread of our anxious travellers .