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5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream
originLate 17th century borrowing from French glande, alteration of Old French glandre, from Latin glandulae (“throat glands, tonsils”), plural of glandula (“a little acorn”), from glāns (“an acorn”) + -ula (diminutive nominal suffix).
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