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
In most cases, however, the peridia are connate throughout, and sometimes present above a membranous common covering.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
In some of the species this sheath is connate with the base of the stem, firm and persistent.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
Diderma, into three sections:— Monoderma to include those species in which the calcareous crust is less distinct or connate with the true peridium.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
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