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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

adnatus

, p. p. of

adnasci

. See

, and cf.

(Physiol.)

Grown to congenitally.

(Bot.)

Growing together; – said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.

An anther is

adnate

when fixed by its whole length to the filament.

Gray.

(Zool.)

Growing with one side adherent to a stem; – a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

Adj.

[L. ad and natus, grown.]

In botany, pressing close to the stem, or growing to it.