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

• connivently adverb
• subconnivent adjective

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

Example Sentences

Calyx.—Petaloid; with short tube and five-cleft border, the lobes acute and connivent.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

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 Wells, Carolyn

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 Gray, Asa

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 Gray, Asa

Stamens distinct or the anthers merely connivent, with ordinary pollen.

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 Gray, Asa