connivent
Americanadjective
adjective
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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
Example Sentences
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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
Shines his gold-laurel sun, or cloak connivent rains.
From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George
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 Gray, Asa
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
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
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