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adnate
[ad-neyt]
adjective
grown fast to something; congenitally attached.
adnate
/ ˈæԱɪ /
adjective
botany growing closely attached to an adjacent part or organ
adnate
BotanyJoined to a part or organ of a different kind, as stamens that are joined to petals.
BotanyCompare connate
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of adnate1
Example Sentences
Stamens much shorter, barely adherent to their base; anthers linear, much longer than the filaments, adnate and extrorse, but the long narrow cells opening laterally.
An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.
Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.
Filaments flattened and adnate to the corolla below.
The leaves are smooth, 2 to 3 in. broad, with 3 to 5 unequal serrate lobes, and glandular stipules adnate to the stalk.
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