'Connate' definitions:
Definition of 'connate'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Connate'
From: GCIDE
- Connate \Con"nate\ (?; 277), a. [L. connatus; con- + natus born, p. p. of nasci. See Cognate.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Born with another; being of the same birth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Congenital; existing from birth. "Connate notions." --South. [1913 Webster]
- A difference has been made by some; those diseases or conditions which are dependent on original conformation being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'connate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affiliated,
- affinal,
- affinitive,
- agnate,
- akin,
- allied,
- atavistic,
- bodily,
- born,
- coeval,
- cognate,
- congeneric,
- congenerous,
- congenial,
- congenital,
- connatal,
- connatural,
- connected,
- consanguine,
- conspecific,
- constitutional,
- correlative,
- deep-seated,
- elemental,
- enate,
- essential,
- genetic,
- genetically related,
- hereditary,
- in the blood,
- inborn,
- inbred,
- incarnate,
- incident,
- indigenous,
- indwelling,
- inherited,
- innate,
- instinctive,
- instinctual,
- intrinsic,
- kindred,
- native,
- native to,
- natural,
- natural to,
- of common source,
- organic,
- physical,
- primal,
- related,
- related by blood,
- temperamental,
- unacquired