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
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be ‘the expression of the imagination’: and poetry is connate with the origin of man.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
Now in these different stages of aggregation, may we not see paralleled the union of groups of connate tribes into nations?
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
Stamens and style connate; anthers 1 or 2.
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 Asa Gray
