Connate

3 definitions found

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

  Connate \Con"nate\ (?; 277), a. [L. connatus; con- + natus born,
     p. p. of nasci. See {Cognate}.]
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     1. Born with another; being of the same birth.
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     2. Congenital; existing from birth. "Connate notions."
        --South.
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              A difference has been made by some; those diseases
              or conditions which are dependent on original
              conformation being called congenital; while the
              diseases of affections that may have supervened
              during gestation or delivery are called connate.
                                                    --Dunglison.
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     3. (Bot.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or
        united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate
        leaves or athers. See Illust. of {Connate-perfoliate}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  connate
       adj 1: of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united; "a
              connate tomato flower" [ant: {adnate}]
       2: related in nature; "connate qualities" [syn: {cognate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "connate":
     affiliated, affinal, affinitive, agnate, akin, allied, atavistic,
     bodily, born, coeval, cognate, congeneric, congenerous, congenial,
     congenital, connatal, connatural, connected, consanguine,
     conspecific, constitutional, correlative, deep-seated, elemental,
     enate, essential, genetic, genetically related, hereditary,
     in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, incident, indigenous,
     indwelling, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, intrinsic,
     kindred, native, native to, natural, natural to, of common source,
     organic, physical, primal, related, related by blood,
     temperamental, unacquired