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–adjective Biology.
grown fast to something; congenitally attached.
[Origin: 1655–65; < L adnātus, i.e., ad(g)nātus, r. agnātus agnate]
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adj.   Biology
United to a part or organ of a different kind, as stamens attached to petals.


[Latin adnātus, variant of agnātus, past participle of agnāscī, to grow upon; see agnate.]

ad·na'tion n.
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adnate

adjective
of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached; "a calyx adnate to the ovary" [ant: connate] 

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

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Adnate

Ad"nate\, a. [L. adnatus, p. p. of adnasci. See Adnascent, and cf. Agnate.]

1. (Physiol.) Grown to congenitally.

2. (Bot.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.

An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. --Gray.

3. (Zo["o]l.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.
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