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connate

/kon-eyt/US // ˈkɒn eɪt //UK // (ˈkɒneɪt) //

合生,合在一起,合并,合在一起的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : existing in a person or thing from birth or origin; inborn: a connate sense of right and wrong.
    • : associated in birth or origin.
    • : allied or agreeing in nature; cognate.
    • : Anatomy. firmly united; fused.
    • : Botany. congenitally joined, as leaves.
    • : Geology. trapped in sediment at the time the sediment was deposited: connate water.

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Examples

  • In a considerable proportion of insects it seems connate with the Labium, and forming its inner surface?

  • In most cases, however, the peridia are connate throughout, and sometimes present above a membranous common covering.

  • Their knowledge is connate and is called instinct; but it belongs to the natural love in which they are.

  • If by nature deaf, from the intonation of sounds; and many unhappy instances of such connate defects abound among our species.

  • Perianth subcompressed laterally, connate with the involucral leaves.