confluent 



Conocarpium 



con'fluent, con'flmns (Lat. , flowing 

 into), blended into one, passing by 

 degrees one into the other ; ~ Fruit, 

 a compound fruit, such as the mul- 

 berry or pineapple. 



conformed', conform'is (Lat., shaped) ; 

 (1) similar in form; (2) closely fit- 

 ting, as a seed-coat to the nucellus. 



Con'gener (Lat. of the same race), 

 another plant of the same genus ; 

 congeneric, belonging to the same 

 genus. 



congenital (congemtus, born together), 

 grown to anything ; strictly, of the 

 same origin. 



Conge'ries (Lat., a heap), a collection 

 of parts or organs. 



congest'ed, congest' us (Lat., brought 

 together), crowded. 



conglo'bate, congloba'tus (Lat., made 

 like a ball), collected into a ball. 



conglomerate, conglomera' tus (Lat., 

 rolled together), clustered. 



Conglu'tin (conglutinatus, cemented 

 together), a constituent of plant- 

 casein, usually with legumin ; con- 

 glu'tinate, conglutina'tus, as though 

 glued together. 



con'gregate (congrego, to assemble), 

 collected into close proximity. 



Co'nia (Kuveiov, hemlock), the active 

 principle of Conium maculatum, 

 Linn., a poisonous alkaloid. 



con'ical, con'icus (Lat., cone-shaped), 

 having the figure of a cone, as the 

 carrot. 



conidiif erous (/c6/is, dust ; </>opeo>, I 

 carry), bearing CONIDIA ; Conidl- 

 ophore = GONIDIOPHORE ; Conidlo- 

 spore (ffjropa, a seed) = CONIDIUM ; 

 Con'ids, simplification proposed by 

 Bennett and Murray for CONIDIA ; 

 Conid'ium (pi. Conidia) = GoNiDiA. 



Conif'erin (conus, a cone ; ftro, I bear), 

 a glucoside derived from coniferous 

 wood ; coniferous, producing or 

 bearing cones, as many Gymno- 

 sperms ; co'niform (forma, shape) = 

 CONICAL. 



Co'niin, Co'nein, the same as CONIA. 



Con'iocyst', Coniocyst'a (/com, dust ; 

 KVffTis, a bag), a closed sporangium 

 resembling a tubercule,containing a 



mass of spores ; Coniotne'ca + 

 case), the loculus of an anther. 



Conjoint Bun'dle, a vascular bundle 

 when it is composed of wood and 

 bast elements 



conjugate, conjugal tus (Lat., united), 

 coupled ; as a pinnate leaf, of two 

 leaflets : ~ Spi'rals, whorled leaves so 

 arranged as to give two or more gen- 

 etic spirals running parallel with 

 each other ; Conjugating Tubes, 

 long processes emitted by the fer- 

 tilized trichophore in certain Algae, 

 which unite with the auxiliary 

 cells (Osterhout) ; Conjuga'tion, the 

 fusion of sexual elements, the union 

 of two gametes to form a zygote, 

 used especially when the two 

 gametes are similar, as in some 

 Algae and Fungi : ~ -Cell = GAMETE ; 

 conjuga'to-palm'ate, when a leaf 

 divides into two arms, each of 

 which is palmate. 



conjunc'tive (conjunctivus, joined), 

 serving to unite ; ~ Threads, = 

 SPINDLE Fibres ; ~ Tis'sue, the 

 fundamental tissue or ground tissue 

 interior to the stele ; Conjunctor'ium 

 + the operculum of a Moss. 



connas'cent, (con, with ; nascor, to be 

 born), produced at the same time 

 (Crozier). 



con'nate, conna'tus (Lat., born at the 

 same time), united, congenitally or 

 subsequently ; con'nate-perfo'liate, 

 united at the base in pairs around 

 the supporting axis. 



Connecting Cell, (connectus, fastened 

 together) = HETEROCYST ; ~ Zone, the 

 "hoop" or girdle connecting the 

 valves of a L)iatom frustule ; Con- 

 nective, Connect i' vum, the portion 

 of a stamen distinct from the fila- 

 ment which connects the two lobes 

 of an anther ; connectiva'lis, having 

 to do with the connective. 



conni'vent, conni'vens (Lat., winking), 

 coming into contact or converging. 



Connu'bium, (Lat., wedlock), the 

 stage of protoplasmic coalescence 

 in the conjugation of filamentous 

 Algae. 



Conocarpium (KWVO?, a cone ; 



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