ADNATE

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Grown to congenitally.

2.
a.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

3.
a.

Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.


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