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Definition of Adnate

1. Adjective. Of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached. "A calyx adnate to the ovary"

Definition of Adnate

1. a. Grown to congenitally.

Definition of Adnate

1. Adjective. (botany mycology) Linked or fused to something unlike itself. ¹

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Definition of Adnate

1. joined to another part or organ [adj]

Medical Definition of Adnate

1. A plant part which is fused to an organ of a different kind, for example a stamen fused to a petal. (15 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adnate

Literary usage of Adnate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Herbaceous plants with either stinging or jointed and rough-barbed hairs, no stipules, calyx-tube adnate to a 1-celled ovary, parietal placentae, ..."

2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"Stems and leaves very succulent, Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the lobes unequal and foliaceous. on the tube of the calyx. Ovary in.ours 10 to 12-celled, ..."

3. Flora of the southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Anthers adnate, often appendaged, usually opening by terminal pores. Ovary 3 - 6-celled. Ovules numerous, attached to the central placente. Style solitary. ..."

4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... the filaments short, and the anthers adnate; disk none; ovary conical, one- celled ; ovules numerous on a free basal placenta ; stigmas two. ..."

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