Adnate

Definition of Adnate

Ad´nate

a.	1.	(Physiol.) Grown to congenitally.
	2.	(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.
	3.	(Zool.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; - a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

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