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

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

Stipe long, ascending, brownish in color, usually several fasciculate or to some extent connate, the sporangia divergent at the apex.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

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