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Her entire seminar resounded with me, but what was particularly noteworthy were her primary goals which include stimulating enthusiasm for chemistry and purging the negative connation associated with chemicals.

From Scientific American • Mar. 8, 2013

Apart from such divergencies the connation of the petals is universally recognized as one of the most important systematic characters.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

The condition in question is often loosely confounded with connation, or the union of two leaves by their bases.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

They have the stalk inserted in the middle of the blade, a contrivance produced by the connation of the two basal lobes.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

Sometimes only two or three petals are united, or the connation does not extend the entire length of the petals.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de