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
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
For these are the contiguous and coalescent walls or sides of the component carpels.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
