ppl. a. [f. COHERE v. + -ING2.] That coheres or cleaves together.

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1665.  Manley, Grotius’ Low C. Warres, 107. To break asunder these rash and ill co-hering People.

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1695.  Ld. Preston, Boeth., V. 216. This long Train of cohering Causes.

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1844–57.  G. Bird, Urin. Depos. (ed. 5), 223. The oxalate will be deposited around it, although scarcely in cohering masses.

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  b.  Bot. United externally to each other: of organs of the same kind, as of two or more anthers.

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1776.  Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 322. Styles … bluish, slightly cohering.

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1845.  Lindley, Sch. Bot., iv. (1858), 38. Anthers … either separate or cohering.

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1869.  Oliver, Elem. Bot., I. vii. 90. The … cohering sides of adjacent carpels.

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