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Definition of: adnate
(ad′nāt) adjective Biol.
Grown together; fused: said esp. of unlike parts not typically joined, as the calyx and ovary of a flower. [<L adnatus, pp. of adnasci.
See ADNASCENT.]
—ad·na′tion noun
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