Growing together or congenitally joined; united from birth or beginning of growth.
From Latin adnatus (born to or with), from adnascere (to grow toward). This botanical and anatomical term became standard in English science during the 1600s.
Botanists use adnate to describe anthers (pollen-producing parts) that are adnate to the filament—essentially fused together from the flower's development, not separate structures joined later.
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