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Definition of Concrescent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concrescent
Literary usage of Concrescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, Terms & Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"mass purposed to combine its concrescent matter). Je, everlasting, ever enduring
state; also ye, you; lief, ..."
2. A Course on Practical Elementary Biology by John Bidgood (1893)
"The posterior portion is free, the anterior is concrescent with the body-wall.
... The edges of the outer lamellae of the outer gill-plates are concrescent ..."
3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"which become concrescent at a relatively late period. Their inturned margins bear
the ovules upon the under-surface, and upon the margin (Fig. ..."
4. Veitch's Manual of the Coniferae: Containing a General Review of the Order by Adolphus Henry Kent (1900)
"Leaves in decussate pairs, glandular ; on the axial growths subulate-oblong,
mucronate, concrescent ; on the lateral herbaceous shoots smaller, scale-like, ..."
5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"BOODLE* has discovered concrescent leaves on a tree of Pinus Laricio growing in the
... 8 BOODLE, LA, concrescent and solitary foliage leaves in Pinus. ..."
6. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"Recent. Single genus, Prasina. FAM. 3. Ostreidae. — Heart generally ventral to
the rectum, branchiae concrescent with the mantle, no byssus; ..."
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