connate
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Water trapped in the unconnected pores of the rock during the processes of deposition and lithification is called connate water.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Men most often weaponize the term, using it to connate unwarranted bitterness and dismiss arguments. When either does so, I respond plainly, “I am not a feminist.”
From Salon ● May 17, 2016
Connate-perfoliate, when a pair of leaves are connate round a stem, 60.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Stipe long, ascending, brownish in color, usually several fasciculate or to some extent connate, the sporangia divergent at the apex.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
Ovaries at the base of the spadix, each surrounded by 4–5 staminodia connate into a cup, 1-celled, bearing 1–few amphitropous or nearly orthotropous ovules at the base; stigma almost sessile.
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
