adnate

American  

[ad-neyt] / ˈæd neɪt /

adjective

Biology.

1. grown fast to something; congenitally attached.

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adnate British  

/ ˈædneɪt /

adjective

1. botany growing closely attached to an adjacent part or organ

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adnate Scientific  

/ ăd′nāt′ /

1. Botany Joined to a part or organ of a different kind, as stamens that are joined to petals.

2. Botany Compare connate

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Etymology

Origin of adnate

1655–65; < Latin adnātus, i.e., ad ( g ) nātus, replacing agnātus agnate

Example Sentences

Seeds 2 or more, bony, in a 2-beaked woody pod opening above, the base adnate to the calyx-tube.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Stamens much shorter, barely adherent to their base; anthers linear, much longer than the filaments, adnate and extrorse, but the long narrow cells opening laterally.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Calyx-tube.—Very long and slender; adnate to the ovary; its limb of five slender divisions.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Anthers.—Six; sessile; adnate in pairs to the thick style under the broad lobes of the stigma; vertical.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Stamens.—Five, on the base of the corolla, adnate to the tube below.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth