Connate-perfoliate

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Connate-perfoliate \Con"nate-per*fo"li*ate\, a. (Bot.)
     Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad
     foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes;
     -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.
     [1913 Webster]