adnate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Botany Joined to a part or organ of a different kind, as stamens that are joined to petals.
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Botany Compare connate
Etymology
Origin of adnate
1655–65; < Latin adnātus, i.e., ad ( g ) nātus, replacing agnātus agnate
Example Sentences
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Leaves alternate and simple, with stipules adnate to the petiole or wanting.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Filaments broad and flat, adherent to the corolla up to the sinuses, short; anthers adnate, of 2 ovoid pointless cells, diverging below, each opening therefore by a transverse-descending line.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Seeds 2 or more, bony, in a 2-beaked woody pod opening above, the base adnate to the calyx-tube.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Stamens 6; anthers linear, on short filaments, adnate, usually introrse; the cells opening down the margins.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Stamens.—Five, on the base of the corolla, adnate to the tube below.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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