Example Sentences

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“The Unwinding” is complex and intelligent, but these qualities are coalescent rather than explicit.

From Salon • May 26, 2013

These patterns would be very hard to explain in terms of convergent functional-site evolution or random coalescent fluctuations.

From Nature • Jul. 4, 2012

The result is a solid coalescent mass of curd, which is cut into small pieces, i.e., "milled," before it is put to press.

From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Hastings, Edwin George

This term is the counterpart of coalescent, as free is the counterpart of adnate.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Fertile catkins rounded, of 3 to 6 fleshy, coalescent scales, forming in fruit a bluish-black berry with a whitish bloom, but found on only a portion of the plants.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)