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What does connate mean?

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Adjective
  1. cognate
  2. inborn
  3. (botany) united with others of the same kind (especially of sepals or petals)
  4. (geology) trapped within a rock at the time of its formation (especially of water or petroleum)
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Involucre as in coreopsis, the inner connate to the middle, scarious-margined.
Now in these different stages of aggregation, may we not see paralleled the union of groups of connate tribes into nations?
Five united stamens are adnate to the top of the pistil, which is made up of five connate carpels.
Monoderma to include those species in which the calcareous crust is less distinct or connate with the true peridium.
The flabellate multiserial sheets have autozooids arranged more-or-less quincuncially, not in connate series as with many species of Tubulipora.
Sepals and petals are usually similar in form and free, but the lateral sepals may be connate to different degrees, forming a spur.

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