Clusters
['klʌstɚ]
Examples
- They range from mere specks scarcely visible with a powerful magnifying glass, to large black spots or clusters of large or small black specks sometimes quite plain to the naked eye. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The ivy and the moss crept in thick clusters over the old trees, and the soft green turf overspread the ground like a silken mat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Filings do not adhere to the sides of the helix, but they cling in clusters to the ends of the coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The nuts hang from the summit of the tree in clusters of a dozen or more together. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In a contribution on this subject submitted to the Royal Society in 1787 he announced the discovery of 466 new nebul? and clusters of stars. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In large genera the species are apt to be closely but unequally allied together, forming little clusters round other species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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