a. [ad. L. adnāt-us, more commonly agnātus, f. ad to + (g)nātus born. See also AGNATE.]
† 1. Added to something naturally existing. Obs.
1677. Gale, Crt. of Gentiles, II. IV. 141. There is an adnate or acquired hardnesse by custome in sin.
2. Phys. and Bot. Attached congenitally by the whole surface; grown to congenitally.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 312. The pancreas … is adnate to the fundus of the ventricle.
1666. J. Smith, Solomon’s Old Age (1752), 155. The adnate or the enate parts, either the epiphyses or the apophyses of the bones.
1696. Phillips, Adnate Tunicle, the common Membrane of the Eye called Conjunctive.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 11. The ovarium, to the surface of which it is adnate.
1856. Woodward, Mollusca, 130. Eye-pedicels short, adnate with the tentacles, externally.
1857. Henfrey, Elem. Bot., § 202. If the filament runs up the back of the anther as it were … the anther is adnate.
