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

Perfoliate, said of leaves connate about the stem.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

P. 3-5 cm. tough, shell-shaped, imbricate, connate behind, longitudinally corrugated with ribs, floccoso-scrupose, tan, edge incurved, entire; g. broad, torn, white; sp. glob.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

If by nature deaf, from the intonation of sounds; and many unhappy instances of such connate defects abound among our species.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John