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

If by nature deaf, from the intonation of sounds; and many unhappy instances of such connate defects abound among our species.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John

In some of the species this sheath is connate with the base of the stem, firm and persistent.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

Achenes very thick and obovoid, flat at the top; pappus none.—Erect perennial herbs, with opposite coarsely toothed leaves, their sessile bases sometimes connate, and large single heads of pale yellow flowers, on terminal peduncles.

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 Gray, Asa