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

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

On is, in like manner, the clipped or coalescent particle for hill or mountain, as heard in Onondaga.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

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