connivent

American  

[kuh-nahy-vuhnt] / kəˈnaɪ vənt /

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. converging, as petals.

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connivent British  

/ kəˈnaɪvənt /

adjective

1. (of parts of plants and animals) touching without being fused, as some petals, insect wings, etc

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Other Word Forms

• subconnivent
  adjective
• connivently
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of connivent

First recorded in 1635–45, connivent is from the Latin word connīvent- (stem of connīvēns, present participle of connīvēre ). See connive, -ent

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Example Sentences

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connivent

Sepals thick, erect and connivent at base, mostly dull purple.

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

Stamens 5, short; filaments appendaged with a scale on the inner side, the 5 scales connivent and united over the stigma; anthers opening on the inner face.

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

Spines often long, stout and red; peduncles long and slender; flowers white or whitish; filaments capillary, 4–6´´ long, generally connivent or closely parallel, soon conspicuously longer than the oblong-linear calyx-lobes.

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

Calyx 5-parted; the divisions somewhat petal-like, oblong, connivent and coriaceous in fruit, the base and almost the whole length of the pedicel winged on one side.

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

Marchant he treads the all-along of inarable drift On dubiously connivent legs, The facile prey of predatory flies; Panting for further; sworn to lurch Empirical on to the Menelik-buffered, enhavened blue, Rhyming—see Cantique I.—with doodle-doo.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

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