Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being adnate; congenital union of different organs by their surfaces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
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- noun botany The
adhesion orcohesion of differentfloral verticils or sets oforgans .
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Examples
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The huge size of some trees has been, in some cases, attributed to the adnation of different stems.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The adnation of the peduncles of the inflorescences to the stem is typical in _Solanum_ and accidental in many other cases.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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- Botany closely attached; related; grown together especially unusually. adnation, adonize v. - i. & t. ornament; adorn oneself (of men).
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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A similar adnation has been observed by the same botanist in _Lepidium sativum_ and _Sinapis ramosa_, as well as in other plants. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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