conferruminate love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Soldered together; consolidated as if soldered together; specifically, in botany, closely adherent, so as to be separated with difficulty, as the cotyledons of the horse-chestnut.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

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  • verb To unite into a solid mass
  • adjective botany Closely united by the coalescence of contiguous faces.

Etymologies

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Latin conferruminareĀ ("to cement").

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