inosculate

• At the same time as all the vessels of the different buds of trees inosculate or communicate with each other, the fruit becomes sweeter and larger when the green leaves continue on the tree, but the mature flowers themselves, (the succeeding fruit not considered) perhaps suffer little injury from the green leaves being taken off, as some florists have observed 8. —  The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
• Vessels of the leaf and bud inosculate. —  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• The middle section is a simple ventricle, and the hindmost, the section turned towards the dorsal side, into which the vitelline veins inosculate, is a simple auricle (or atrium). —  The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
• _Urticeae_), especially figs, which abound in the hot gulleys, where the property of their roots, which inosculate and form natural grafts, is taken advantage of in bridging streams, and in constructing what are called living bridges, of the most picturesque forms. —  Himalayan Journals — Complete
• Designated parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava. inosculate —  Surgical Anatomy

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