connate

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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

The researchers found most of the salt, organic and other minerals that appear in produced water from shale gas reservoirs originate in the connate waters trapped in the dense rock over geologic time scales.

From New York Times

Involucral leaves connate at base and adnate to the perianth. b.

From Project Gutenberg

Perfoliate, said of leaves connate about the stem.

From Project Gutenberg

Connate-perfoliate, when a pair of leaves are connate round a stem, 60.

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