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Definition of gland noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

gland

noun
 
/ɡlænd/
 
/ɡlænd/
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  1. an organ in a person’s or an animal’s body that produces a substance for the body to use; a part in the body that is similar to this, especially a lymph node
    • a snake’s poison glands
    • Her glands are swollen.
    • She’s gone to bed with swollen glands and a temperature.
    see also adrenal gland, pineal, pituitary, prostate, thymus, thyroidTopics Bodyc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • enlarged
    • swollen
    • adrenal
    • …
    gland + verb
    • release something
    • secrete something
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    Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French glande, alteration of Old French glandre, from Latin glandulae ‘throat glands’.
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