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
The eruption of typhus is of a smaller pattern, discrete, and not raised; that of measles, often coalescent, crescentic, and elevated.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Compound 3-carpellary pistil of Tradescantia or Spiderwort; the three stigmas as well as styles and ovary completely coalescent into one.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
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
