connate
Example Sentences
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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
Achenes very thick and obovoid, flat at the top; pappus none.—Erect perennial herbs, with opposite coarsely toothed leaves, their sessile bases sometimes connate, and large single heads of pale yellow flowers, on terminal peduncles.
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
Perfoliate, said of leaves connate about the stem.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Leaves transverse, complicate-bilobed; involucral leaves 2 or 4, connate with the perianth.
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
