coalescent

Example Sentences

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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

In the latter case, the letter w is thrown in as a coalescent between the sound of a, as a in hate; and the a, as a in fall.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

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

The carpels of the latter are wholly coalescent as in a pear, while those of the upper verticil are only partially coherent or sometimes quite distinct.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.