= connate, adj. 4.

Not liable to fall off or be shed; permanently attached. Obsolete.

Of two parts (of a plant or animal): naturally attached or united, esp. by their entire surfaces. In later use chiefly Botany.

Of organic members, structures, processes, etc.: Running together; becoming at length united, connected, or blended into one.

Botany and Zoology. Congenitally united, so as to have the form of one compound organ or body; used, e.g. of leaves united at the base; of elytra…

Set or put in; fitted in, ingrafted.

Joined together; congenitally united.

Biology. Said of the cells or filaments that have united in conjugation, n. (sense A. 5).

That conjugates; spec. in Biology.

= connate, adj.