Category:Adnate

Ad"nate, a. Etym: [L. adnatus, p. p. of adnasci. See Adnascent, and cf. Agnate.]

1. (Physiol.)

Defn: Grown to congenitally.

2. (Bot.)

Defn: 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. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.