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Definition of Connate
1. Adjective. Of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united. "A connate tomato flower"
2. Adjective. Related in nature. "Connate qualities"
Definition of Connate
1. a. Born with another; being of the same birth.
Definition of Connate
1. Adjective. cognate ¹
2. Adjective. inborn ¹
3. Adjective. (botany) united with others of the same kind (especially of sepals or petals) ¹
4. Adjective. (geology) trapped within a rock at the time of its formation (especially of water or petroleum) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Connate
1. innate [adj] - See also: innate
Medical Definition of Connate
1. Fused to another organ (or other organs) of the same kind. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Connate
Literary usage of Connate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology of the Non-metallic Mineral Deposits Other Than Silicates by Amadeus William Grabau (1920)
"CHAPTER IX' connate SALTS; THEIR ORIGIN AND METHOD OF CONCENTRATION Definition
of the Term.—When marine sediments of any type are formed upon the sea bottom ..."
2. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Bracts leafy, very large, connate. Calyx-limb sbort, persistent. ... Flowen sessile,
connate by the ovaries. Calyx-limb deciduous. Corolla J in., pubescent, ..."
3. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"Style* with hooked arms. Fruit T>5 in. diam., echinate.—Wight represents the
filamente as wholly connate and the anthers as erect, ..."
4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... being the third connate pair of scales in the cone, the somewhat differently
winged and shaped seed, and the arrangement of the leaves in four ranks. 1. ..."
5. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... both sides. usually only uppermost pair connate into a disk and subtending
the simple ... uppermost connate or occasionally distinct: spikes slender, ..."
6. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"29), which again are occasionally connate ... 30) they are petioled, and in D.
nudicaule (fig. 32) the petioles are connate. FIo. 41! ..."
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