concrescence
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Origin of concrescence
1600–10; < Latin concrēscentia, equivalent to concrēscent- (stem of concrēscēns, present participle of concrēscere to harden, set; see con-, crescent) + -ia -ia; see -ence
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He lugs the “great concrescence of blooms” into the restaurant, where a concerned man says to him, “You look like you’ve been in a fight with some squirrels or something.”
From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2014
The Cephalopoda are mainly characterized by the concrescence of the foot and head.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Why, for instance, should the blastopore so often appear as a long slit, closing by concrescence, unless this had been the original method of its formation in remote Cœlenterate ancestors?
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
In the embryos of higher Vertebrates it closes in the centre, the point of concrescence forming the tympanic membrane.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 by Various
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