Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Joined or united with a part or organ of a different kind, as stamens attached to petals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In physiology and botany, congenitally attached or grown together. See
adnation . Also coadnate, coadunate, coadunated, and consolidated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Grown to congenitally.
- adjective (Bot.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.
- adjective (Zoöl.) 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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- adjective botany, mycology
Linked orfused to something unlike itself. - adjective zoology Growing with one side adherent to a stem; applied to the lateral
zooids ofcorals and other compound animals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached
Etymologies
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Examples
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Spikelets are in dissimilar pairs, one globose, sessile and bisexual and the other ovate, pedicelled, neuter with the pedicels adnate to, or closely appressed to the joint of the rachis.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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+Gills+ adnate, very crowded, linear, somewhat liquid when mature (deliquescent), sulphur yellow, and then becoming green, taste bitter.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Professor Morren considers the adventitious petalodes as rudiments of so many supplementary flowers, axillary to the calyx, and adnate to the corolla; each lobe then would, in this view, represent an imperfect flower, and the completed catacorolla would be formed of a series of confluent flowers of this description.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The spikelets are usually binate, one-sessile closing or sunk in the cavity of the joint and the other pedicelled, smaller than the sessile or rudimentary with the pedicel usually adnate to the joints and equal to or shorter than it.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _pedicelled spikelets_ also have four glumes and the pedicels usually free, but also sometimes adnate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The latter, however, agrees with the normal sterile stamen in its insertion as well as in shape, being equally adnate to the base of the style.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In _Brunia microphylla_ the ovary is superior, enclosed within but not adnate to the cup-like calyx, to which latter, however, the petals and stamens are attached.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The appearance presented by the petaloid filaments and anthers was as if they were adnate to the centre of the petals, but, on closer examination, it appeared that the petaloid expansion to which the dilated filament was apparently attached, was equally a part of the stamens; in other words, that the filament was provided with four petal-like wings, two on each side
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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As the two sterile stamens are anteposed to the two sepals, so are the two fertile stamens to the two petals, and the latter are adnate to the style a little higher than the former.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The _spikelets_ are 1 - to 2-flowered in dissimilar pairs, one globose, sessile and bisexual and the other ovate, pedicelled, neuter; the pedicel is adnate to the joint of the rachis.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
knitandpurl commented on the word adnate
"Scatter patterns in sand, adnates, cancellates, gaping
whelk husks, a toy tractor-trailer, cracked
and dinged, beside the spine of a plastic tree,
the helmet-shaped shelter of a shadow cast
by a not-quite-buried wedge of pottery . . ."
"Hermit Crab" by Stephen Burt, p 28 of the August 5, 2013 issue of the New Yorker
August 13, 2013