adnate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Botany Joined to a part or organ of a different kind, as stamens that are joined to petals.
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Botany Compare connate
Etymology
Origin of adnate
1655–65; < Latin adnātus, i.e., ad ( g ) nātus, replacing agnātus agnate
Example Sentences
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Filaments.—United to their middle; each bearing a linear, adnate, curved, two-celled anther.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Calyx.—Campanulate; five-toothed; ribbed; three to six lines long; adnate to the ovary below.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Stamens.—Five, on the base of the corolla, adnate to the tube below.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Filaments flattened and adnate to the corolla below.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Calyx valvate, adnate at least at base to the 6-celled many-seeded ovary.
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
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