Hypertext Webster Gateway: "adnate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Adnate \Ad"nate\, a. [L. adnatus, p. p. of adnasci. See
{Adnascent}, and cf. {Agnate}.]
1. (Physiol.) Grown to congenitally.
2. (Bot.) 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. (Zo["o]l.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a
term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other
compound animals.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
adnate
adj : (biology) of unlike parts or organs; growing closely
attached; "a calyx adnate to the ovary" [ant: {connate}]
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