Associations to the word «Adnate»

Wiktionary

ADNATE, adjective. (botany) (mycology) Linked or fused to something unlike itself.
ADNATE, adjective. (zoology) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

Dictionary definition

ADNATE, adjective. Of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached; "a calyx adnate to the ovary".

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery