adnate

American  

[ad-neyt] / ˈæd neɪt /

adjective

Biology.

1. grown fast to something; congenitally attached.

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adnate British  

/ ˈædneɪt /

adjective

1. botany growing closely attached to an adjacent part or organ

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adnate Scientific  

/ ăd′nāt′ /

1. Botany Joined to a part or organ of a different kind, as stamens that are joined to petals.

2. Botany Compare connate

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Etymology

Origin of adnate

1655–65; < Latin adnātus, i.e., ad ( g ) nātus, replacing agnātus agnate

Example Sentences

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 Gray, Asa

Cotyledons thick and fleshy.—Herbs, with palmately 1–15-foliolate leaves, stipules adnate to base of the petiole, and showy flowers in terminal racemes or spikes.

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 Gray, Asa

Calyx-tube.—Very long and slender; adnate to the ovary; its limb of five slender divisions.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Stamens 6, the sessile anthers adnate to the stigma.

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 Gray, Asa

Filaments long and slender; adnate to the corolla below.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth