clumper
/ˈklʌmpɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A heavy percussive noise, like that of heavy footfalls.
noun
One who clumps; one who walks with a clumping gait.
Example Sentences
- "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) ."
- "in the case of spreading versus clumping eggs, when the average fitness is calculated for a large number of spreaders, the issue of individual variance in reproductive success vanishes. Put another way, the contribution to the overall average fitness by a clumper who loses her nest and produces zero offspring is exactly offset by a successful clumper that produces a whole brood ( see also Hopper et al. 2003 )"
- "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."
- "Bamboo can be as delicate as the umbrella bamboo, Fargesia murieliae, a clumper with soft pea-green foliage and a weeping habit, or as heroic as Phyllostachys edulis, whose sturdy olive-green canes can grow 70 feet in a single season."
Etymology
From clump + -er.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈklʌmpɚ/
- British English: /ˈklʌmpə/