a. and sb. [ad. L. coalescent-em, pr. pple. of coalescĕre: see above.]
A. adj. That coalesces; coalescing; growing together, combining.
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint., II. 168. For coalescent by that band We are His body grown.
1765. W. Ward, Ess. Eng. Gram., IV. iii. 161. The characteristic is denoted by the coalescent participle.
1848. Dana, Zooph., 276. Branches divaricate, often coalescent.
1872. H. A. Nicholson, Palæont., 160. The abdominal segments are coalescent.
B. sb. One who or that which coalesces.
In modern Dicts.
