Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the act of growing together, or the state of being grown together, as in connate leaves or petioles. See
connate leaf (cut), under connate. - noun Connection by birth; natural union.
- noun In zoology and anatomy, the formation and production of two things together; original union; junction from the first: as, the connation of the toes of a palmiped bird by their-webs; connation of two processes of bone which arise by a, single center of ossification. Connation is an earlier and more intimate or complete union than confluence. See
confluent , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Connection by birth; natural union.
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- noun obsolete
connection bybirth ;natural union
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Examples
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Now it’s connation is a nonspecific disparagement.
“In the Tank” 2008
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The truth is, that the word is used because the connation is negative, very much like "your mother wears combat boots".
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The negative prefix describes abstention from military blocks but non-alignment has also a positive connation.
Democracy in India 1973
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The condition in question is often loosely confounded with connation, or the union of two leaves by their bases.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The cup in question would thus seem to have been formed from the connation of two stipules which are ordinarily abortive.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Sometimes only two or three petals are united, or the connation does not extend the entire length of the petals.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Apart from such divergencies the connation of the petals is universally recognized as one of the most important systematic characters.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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They have the stalk inserted in the middle of the blade, a contrivance produced by the connation of the two basal lobes.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Some flowers are quite normal, exhibiting no sign of connation; others are wholly gamopetalous, the four petals being united from their base to the very margin of the cup formed.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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This connation of the basal lobes is universally considered as a good and normal specific character.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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