coalescent
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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 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Having coalescent or clustered filaments; Ð said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
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