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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Connate-perfoliate

· Con·nate-per·fo·li·ate · IPA
01 a. Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leave…
  1. 1.
    Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.(Bot.)