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

Stipe variable in length, rigid, erect, black or sometimes rusty-brown, arising from a small hypothallus; the columella broad, hemispherical or pulvinate, black, the lower side connate with the wall of the sporangium.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

Stipes long, erect or curved, simple or usually fasciculate and often connate, arising from a thin hypothallus.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

In some instances the threads are connate, side by side, as in Torula hysterioides, and in Speira, being concentrically arranged in laminæ in the latter genus.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)