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- Glandular - a. - Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
- Tubule - n. - A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.
- Tonsil - n. - One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape.
- Liver - n. - A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
- Proventriulus - n. - The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
- Parotoid - a. - Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.
- Bojanus organ - - A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.
- Follicle - n. - A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
- Retinaculum - n. - A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
- Duct - n. - One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
- Arachnidium - n. - The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.
- Wart - n. - An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.
- Sweetbrier - n. - A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
- Kidney - n. - A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.
- Butterwort - n. - A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.
- Mamma - n. - A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.
- Crypt - n. - A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
- Clitellus - n. - A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.
- Udder - n. - The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma.