coalesce
verb (used without object)
to grow together or into one body.
coalescent
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a word derived from
coalesce.
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
Stamens 3; filaments below coalescent into a club-shaped tube around the rudiment of a pistil, above separate and elongated; anthers 1-celled!
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
For these are the contiguous and coalescent walls or sides of the component carpels.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
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 Edwin George Hastings
