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

Leaves round-quadrate, closely imbricate, deeply and obtusely 2–3-cleft; involucral leaves 3–4-cleft, connate at base, subserrate.

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 Gray, Asa

Ovaries at the base of the spadix, each surrounded by 4–5 staminodia connate into a cup, 1-celled, bearing 1–few amphitropous or nearly orthotropous ovules at the base; stigma almost sessile.

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 Gray, Asa

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be ‘the expression of the imagination’: and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David