Adhering: alternatives and connections

To grow together.

As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to…

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere…

of Adhere

The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, o…

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion.

To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomp…

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenaci…

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple…

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insec…

A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The spe…

Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus m…