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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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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.
The perianth is commonly uniseriate, consisting of 3-5 valvate, basally connate sepals, but sometimes an equal number of petals are also present.
Storage leaves from bases of inner foliage leaves, vaginate only at apex, strongly connate at base, lasting 1 year.
In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.
Involucre as in coreopsis, the inner connate to the middle, scarious-margined.

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