a. [ad. L. consertus set, joined, or connected together.] Bot. Of leaves, etc.: see quot.
1777. S. Robson, Brit. Flora, 7. Consert, crowded so as to leave hardly any space between.
¶ The following may be a sb. from same source = ‘connex’; or for concert or consort, as to which, however, there are difficulties of date.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, VII. 90. It [the pleura] is perforated … with an orderly consert of Veynes, and Arteries.
