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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Existing at birth or from the beginning; inborn or inherent.
  2. adj. Originating at the same time; related.
  3. adj. Being in close accord or sympathy; congenial: "In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets and villages” ( Ralph Waldo Emerson).
  4. adj. Biology Joined or united with a structure of the same kind, as sepals or petals.
  5. adj. Geology Trapped in sediment or rock at the time of deposition: connate water.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Inborn; implanted at or existing from birth; congenital.
  2. Cognate; allied in origin or nature.
  3. In anat. and zoology, united; not separated by a, joint or suture; confluent; specifically, in entom., immovably united; soldered together. Thus, the menturn and ligula may be connate - that is, not separately movable.
  4. In. botany, united congenitally: a general term including both adnate and coalescent. Some times coherent.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. cognate
  2. adj. inborn
  3. adj. botany united with others of the same kind (especially of sepals or petals)
  4. adj. geology trapped within a rock at the time of its formation (especially of water or petroleum)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Born with another; being of the same birth.
  2. adj. Congenital; existing from birth.
  3. adj. (Bot.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united
  2. adj. related in nature

Etymologies

  1. Latin connatus. See cognate. (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin connātus, past participle of connāscī, to be born with : Latin com-, com- + Latin nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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