coalescent

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“The Unwinding” is complex and intelligent, but these qualities are coalescent rather than explicit.

From Salon • May 26, 2013

These patterns would be very hard to explain in terms of convergent functional-site evolution or random coalescent fluctuations.

From Nature • Jul. 4, 2012

Involucral leaves coalescent into an oblong truncate hairy tube, blended in our species with the calyptra; perianth none.

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

This term is the counterpart of coalescent, as free is the counterpart of adnate.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Her Song is heard, a mutter of music, low yet coalescent in slow estrangement from her lips.

From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George