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Connate   Listen
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Connate  adj.  
1.
Born with another; being of the same birth.
2.
Congenital; existing from birth. "Connate notions." "A difference has been made by some; those diseases or conditions which are dependent on original conformation being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate."
3.
(Bot.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers.






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"Connate" Quotes from Famous Books



... inner bristles are two to three times longer than the spikelets, flattened and thickened at the base with a strong green nerve, ciliated with long tubercle-based hairs; one of the bristles is longer than the others and the bases of the bristles are connate at the very base into a ring; the upper portion of the bristles are filiform, scabrid and purple, the lower flattened ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

... or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds there foreign and accidental; to be brothers, to be acquaintances—master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as ...
— Initial Studies in American Letters • Henry A. Beers

... on a delicate, more or less visible hypothallus, often connate, but not superimposed, sub-spherical, dull orange, brownish or tawny; peridium thin, violaceous, covered with very minute yellow calcareous scales; columella none; capillitium lax, sometimes almost wanting; the nodules ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

... essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous^, haematobious^, syngenic^; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite^; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate^, ingenite^; indigenous; in the grain &c n.; bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal &c 221; to the manner born; virtual. characteristic &c (special) 79, (indicative) ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



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