Defn: To move or conduct to or toward. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
ADNASCENT Ad*nas"cent, a. Etym: [L. adnascens, p. pr. of adnasci to be born, grow.]
Defn: Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.
ADNATE Ad"nate, a. Etym: [L. adnatus, p. p. of adnasci. See Adnascent, and cf. Agnate.]
1. (Physiol.)
Defn: Grown to congenitally.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: Growing together; — said only of organic cohesion of unlike
parts.
An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.
Gray.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Growing with one side adherent to a stem; — a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.