connate

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noun. person's friend

Word Origin & History

1640s, from Late Latin connatus "born together, twins," past participle of connasci "to be born together," from com- "together" (see com-) + nasci "to be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Related: Connation.

Example Sentences forconnate

In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.

Each fortune's connate with the gazer's star, And tinted as she dreams.

Connate, united or grown together from the first formation, 96.

Connate-perfoliate, when a pair of leaves are connate round a stem, 60.

Their knowledge is connate and is called instinct; but it belongs to the natural love in which they are.

For a long time these connate forms of government—civil and religious—remain closely associated.

Now in these different stages of aggregation, may we not see paralleled the union of groups of connate tribes into nations?

Monoderma to include those species in which the calcareous crust is less distinct or connate with the true peridium.

In most cases, however, the peridia are connate throughout, and sometimes present above a membranous common covering.

Stipes long, erect or curved, simple or usually fasciculate and often connate, arising from a thin hypothallus.

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