coalescent
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“The Unwinding” is complex and intelligent, but these qualities are coalescent rather than explicit.
From Salon â May 26, 2013
These patterns would be very hard to explain in terms of convergent functional-site evolution or random coalescent fluctuations.
From Nature â Jul. 4, 2012
In the latter case, the letter w is thrown in as a coalescent between the sound of a, as a in hate; and the a, as a in fall.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Fertile catkins ovoid, of 3–6 fleshy coalescent scales, each 1-ovuled, in fruit forming a sort of berry, which is scaly-bracted underneath, bluish-black with white bloom.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The result is a solid coalescent mass of curd, which is cut into small pieces, i.e., "milled," before it is put to press.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings
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