existing in a person or thing from birth or origin; inborn: a connate sense of right and wrong.
2.
associated in birth or origin.
3.
allied or agreeing in nature; cognate.
4.
Anatomy. firmly united; fused.
5.
Botany. congenitally joined, as leaves.
6.
Geology. trapped in sediment at the time the sediment was deposited: connate water.
Origin: 1635–45; < LL connātus (ptp. of connāscī to be born at the same time with), equiv. to L con-con-+ nā- (short s. of nāscī) + -tus ptp. suffix (see nascent)
connate (kŏn'āt', kŏ-nāt') Pronunciation Key Botany Joined with a part or organ of the same kind, as leaves that are joined at the base. Compare adnate.
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