Adnate

Ad·nate

Adnate

a.
  1. Grown to congenitally. (Physiol.)
  2. Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. (Bot.)
    An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.
  3. Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. (Zool.)