Found 2 items, similar to adnate.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: adnate adnate adj : of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached; “a calyx adnate to the ovary” [ant: connate]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Adnate Adnate \Ad"nate\, a. [L. adnatus, p. p. of adnasci. See Adnascent, and cf. Agnate.] 1. (Physiol.) Grown to congenitally. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. [1913 Webster] An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. --Gray. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]