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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Adnate

· Ad·nate · IPA
01 a. Grown to congenitally.
  1. 1.
    Grown to congenitally.(Physiol.)
  2. 2.
    Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.(Bot.)
    “An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.” Gray.
  3. 3.
    Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.(Zool.)