coalescent
Example Sentences
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“The Unwinding” is complex and intelligent, but these qualities are coalescent rather than explicit.
From Salon • May 26, 2013
These patterns would be very hard to explain in terms of convergent functional-site evolution or random coalescent fluctuations.
From Nature • Jul. 4, 2012
On is, in like manner, the clipped or coalescent particle for hill or mountain, as heard in Onondaga.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
The result is a solid coalescent mass of curd, which is cut into small pieces, i.e., "milled," before it is put to press.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Hastings, Edwin George
This term is the counterpart of coalescent, as free is the counterpart of adnate.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
