Combines or blends different things together into a unified whole; present tense third person singular form of amalgamate.
From Medieval Latin amalgamatus, combining Hebrew semantics with Greek-influenced Latin medical terminology. The verb form has been used in English since the 16th century.
When a bee colony 'amalgamates' with another hive, the bees have to recognize and accept each other's chemical signatures—if they don't blend successfully, they'll actually fight each other in what's called a 'bee war,' which shows that even at the microscopic level, blending isn't always simple.
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