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
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 Asa Gray
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 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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 Maxwell T. Masters
