connation
- a word derived from connate.
Example Sentences
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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
Some flowers are quite normal, exhibiting no sign of connation; others are wholly gamopetalous, the four petals being united from their base to the very margin of the cup formed.
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.
Leaves which touch one-another, may be affected by the connation without any further malformation.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
The cup in question would thus seem to have been formed from the connation of two stipules which are ordinarily abortive.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
