connate

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Water trapped in the unconnected pores of the rock during the processes of deposition and lithification is called connate water.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Men most often weaponize the term, using it to connate unwarranted bitterness and dismiss arguments. When either does so, I respond plainly, “I am not a feminist.”

From Salon • May 17, 2016

Capsules short-pedicelled, or sessile on the thallus, or immersed in its substance, free or connate with the calyptra, globose, at length rupturing irregularly.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Perianth exserted, subcampanulate and open, deeply laciniate, connate with the involucral leaves.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

For a long time these connate forms of government—civil and religious—remain closely associated.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert