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
Perianth exserted, subcampanulate and open, deeply laciniate, connate with the involucral leaves.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Stipules none; leaves slightly connate at base, subulate Knawel, Scleranthus annuus. 1b.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason
Staminate Flowers.—Five to twenty in racemes; their stamens two and a half, with short connate filaments and somewhat horizontal anthers.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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