glome

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡləʊm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡloʊm/ Rhymes: -əʊm === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe. ==== Noun ==== glome (plural glomes) (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot. (botany) A globular head of flowers. (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere. === Etymology 2 === An alteration of gloom, from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”). More at gloom. ==== Verb ==== glome (third-person singular simple present glomes, present participle gloming, simple past and past participle glomed) (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen. ==== Noun ==== glome (obsolete) gloom === Anagrams === Gomel, golem