Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Annexing; connecting or joining one thing with another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Connecting; annexing.
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- adjective Serving to
connect orannex .
Etymologies
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Latin annectere to tie or bind to. See annex.
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yarb commented on the word annectent
From such species we pass through an annectent series of increasingly nomadic forms inhabiting increasingly populous formicaries, until we reach the apogee of development of the ever-hungry societies in the higher Doryline genera of Dorylus and Eciton, the driver ants of Africa and America.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 34
December 5, 2008