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

In some instances the threads are connate, side by side, as in Torula hysterioides, and in Speira, being concentrically arranged in laminæ in the latter genus.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

If by nature deaf, from the intonation of sounds; and many unhappy instances of such connate defects abound among our species.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John

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