adnate
Adjective
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Adjective
adnate
- (botany, mycology) Linked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment of a stamen to another stamen is connate.
- Adnate mushroom gills are broadly attached to the stalk slightly above the bottom of the gill, with most of the gill fused to the stem.
- An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.
- 1995, Thomas H. Nash, Corinna Gries, J. A. Elix, A Revision of the Lichen Genus Xanthoparmelia in South America, page 61 ↗,
- Morphologically and chemically X. isidiigera is also similar to X. australasica, but the isidia are typically thinner and more coralloid branched and the thallus more adnate in the latter species.
- 2009, Flora Neotropica, Issue 104, page 88 ↗,
- Morphologically, Hypotrachyna kriegeri closely resembles more adnate morphotypes of H. imbricatula.
- (zoology) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. in fish, having the eyes fused and unable to rotate independently
- 1988, Henry W. Robison, Thomas M Buchanan, Fishes of Arkansas, page 312 ↗,
- It differs from N. eleutherus by possessing a more adnate adipose fin and more prominent saddles and from N. albater by having 8 soft pectoral rays, a submarginal adipose bar, and no prominent basicaudal bar (Douglas 1972).
- 1988, Henry W. Robison, Thomas M Buchanan, Fishes of Arkansas, page 312 ↗,
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