agglutinative

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This frugality, its most basic trait, is then tempered by its second most basic trait, its agglutinative nature—the construction of words by the incessant addition of prefixes and suffixes to the roots.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2016

One day, discussing Turkish, he asked a visitor if he knew what an agglutinative language was.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

Cf. manÐkind, heirÐloom, warÐlike, which are agglutinative compounds.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The analysis of the sentence has not been carried so far in agglutinative languages like Turkish.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

The view that a definite infection occurs, is favored, too, by the fact that the blood-serum of affected persons so frequently has an agglutinative action upon the paratyphoid bacillus.

From Food Poisoning by Jordan, Edwin Oakes