Definitions for connate

connate con·nate

Spelling: [kon-eyt]
IPA: /ˈkɒn eɪt/

Connate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in connate (acennot).

Definitions for connate

adjective

  1. existing in a person or thing from birth or origin; inborn:
  2. associated in birth or origin.
  3. allied or agreeing in nature; cognate.
  4. Anatomy. firmly united; fused.
  5. Botany. congenitally joined, as leaves.
  6. Geology. trapped in sediment at the time the sediment was deposited:

Origin of connate

1635-45; Late Latin connātus (past participle of connāscī to be born at the same time with), equivalent to Latin con- con- + nā- (short stem of nāscī) + -tus past part

Examples for connate

In most cases, however, the peridia are connate throughout, and sometimes present above a membranous common covering.

In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.

Their knowledge is connate and is called instinct; but it belongs to the natural love in which they are.

connate, united or grown together from the first formation, 96.

Each fortune's connate with the gazer's star, And tinted as she dreams.

Stipes long, erect or curved, simple or usually fasciculate and often connate, arising from a thin hypothallus.

Monoderma to include those species in which the calcareous crust is less distinct or connate with the true peridium.

connate-perfoliate, when a pair of leaves are connate round a stem, 60.

Now in these different stages of aggregation, may we not see paralleled the union of groups of connate tribes into nations?

For a long time these connate forms of government—civil and religious—remain closely associated.

Word Value for connate
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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