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cohering, ppl. a.|kəʊˈhɪərɪŋ| [f. cohere v. + -ing2.] That coheres or cleaves together.
1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 107 To break asunder these rash and ill co-hering People. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. v. 216 This long Train of cohering Causes. 1844–57G. Bird Urin. Depos. (ed. 5) 223 The oxalate will be deposited around it, although scarcely in cohering masses. b. Bot. United externally to each other: of organs of the same kind, as of two or more anthers
1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 322 Styles..bluish, slightly cohering. 1845Lindley Sch. Bot. iv. (1858) 38 Anthers..either separate or cohering. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. i. vii. 90 The..cohering sides of adjacent carpels. |