[ad. L. accrēt-us, pa. pple. of accrēscĕre; see ACCRESCE.]
1. Formed by accretion; made up, factitious.
1824. Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. 1846, I. xxvii. 152. Milton is no factitious or accrete man; no pleader, no rhetorician.
1859. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., V. 411/1. Masses of accrete … colouring matter.
2. Bot. Grown together by adhesion of external parts; said of organs normally separate.
1847. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), II. 379. Accrete; fastened to another body, and growing with it (De Cand.).
1880. A. Gray, Bot. Text-Bk., 393. Accrete, Grown together, consolidated with some contiguous body.
