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

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

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

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 Spencer, Herbert

For a long time these connate forms of government—civil and religious—remain closely associated.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert