coalescent

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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

Compound 3-carpellary pistil of Tradescantia or Spiderwort; the three stigmas as well as styles and ovary completely coalescent into one.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; Ð said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Fertile catkins rounded, of 3 to 6 fleshy, coalescent scales, forming in fruit a bluish-black berry with a whitish bloom, but found on only a portion of the plants.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)