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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Closely joined; grown together; united.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. United or joined.
  2. Specifically— In entomology, united without perceptible articulation; connate.
  3. In botany, same as adnate.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany Closely joined (by growing together)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.

Etymologies

  1. Late Latin coadūnātus, past participle of coadūnāre, to combine : Latin co-, co- + Latin adūnāre, to unite (ad-, ad- + ūnus, one; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “Humanity," said Elizabeth, "occupies a similarly equivocal position among the coadunate races of the Galactic Milieu.”

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