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- Latin · derived fromadnatus
- English todayadnate
From Latin adnatus, past participle of variant form of agnascor (“born or growing at or upon”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
adnate
Today it means: Linked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment of a stamen to another stamen is connate. Full definition →
Latin adnatus