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

Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness, compact comprehensiveness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cognancy; eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity and jejune babblement.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

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

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; Ð said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah