单词 | connate |
释义 | connate —connately, adv. —connateness, n. —connation /keuh nay"sheuhn/, n. /kon"ayt/, adj. 1. existing in a person or thing from birth or origin; inborn: a connate sense of right and wrong. 2. associated in birth or origin. 3. allied or agreeing in nature; cognate. 4. Anat. firmly united; fused. 5. Bot. congenitally joined, as leaves. 6. Geol. trapped in sediment at the time the sediment was deposited: connate water. [1635-45; < LL connatus (ptp. of connasci to be born at the same time with), equiv. to L con- CON- + na- (short s. of nasci) + -tus ptp. suffix (see NASCENT)] |
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