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coalescent

adjective as in confluent

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

From Salon

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

From Nature

Stamens 3; filaments below coalescent into a club-shaped tube around the rudiment of a pistil, above separate and elongated; anthers 1-celled!

The eruption of typhus is of a smaller pattern, discrete, and not raised; that of measles, often coalescent, crescentic, and elevated.

Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness, compact comprehensiveness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cognancy; eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity and jejune babblement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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