Adnate

Quick meaning: Adnate is an adjective meaning (botany, mycology) Linked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment of a stamen to another stamen is connate.

Meaning

(botany, mycology) Linked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment of a stamen to another stamen is connate.

More Meanings

1. (zoology) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. in fish, having the eyes fused and unable to rotate independently

Example Sentences

An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.

The ovary is more adnate to the calyx than in any other species of the genus.

Morphologically, Hypotrachyna kriegeri closely resembles more adnate morphotypes of H. imbricatula.

Adnate mushroom gills are broadly attached to the stalk slightly above the bottom of the gill, with most of the gill fused to the stem.

Antonyms for adnate

Common opposites include connate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include calyx, attachment, gills, stipules, subadnate, adnexed.

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