intergrowthn.
/ˈɪntəɡrəʊθ/, U.S. /ˈɪn(t)ərˌɡroʊθ/ The growing (of things) into each other.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > coalescence or fusion
concretion1603
coalition1605
confusion?1608
coagulation1622
coalescence1652
concrement1656
fusion1776
coalescent1784
solution1820
intergrowtha1859
symphytism1871
fusing1886
the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > growing together or into each other
connascency1676
anastomosingc1810
connivance1830
intergrowtha1859
a1859 T. De Quincey Posthumous Wks. (1893) II. 86 Forest trees of the elder generation..begin to thicken with the intergrowth of a younger shrubbery.
1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) vii. i. 227 Real marriage is a long slow intergrowth, like that of two trees planted quite close together in the forest.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 260/2 The complex incrustations and intergrowths of sessile forms.
1894 Naturalist 68 The brown mica is in part in parallel intergrowth with the white.
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