Crossword clues for confluent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confluent \Con"flu*ent\, n.
A small steam which flows into a large one.
The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc. [Obs.]
--Holland.
Confluent \Con"flu*ent\, a. [L. confluens, -entis, p. pr. of confluere, -fluxum; con- + fluere to flow. See Fluent.]
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Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another; flowing together to form a single stream.
Syn: merging(prenominal).
These confluent steams make some great river's head.
--Blackmore. (Bot.) Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.
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(Med.)
Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.
Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox.
--Dunglison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Middle French confluent or directly from Latin confluentem (nominative confluens), present participle of confluere "to flow together" (see confluence). The noun meaning "a stream which flows into another" is from 1850.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects). 2 (context meteorology English) (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart 3 (context biology English) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass 4 (context geometry English) (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle.
WordNet
adj. flowing together [syn: merging(a)]
Usage examples of "confluent".
Externally roothairs are formed on the confluent petioles, either a little above, or on a level with, the plumule.
Their petioles are completely confluent, forming a tube which terminates downwards in a little solid point, consisting of a minute radicle and hypocotyl, with the likewise minute plumule enclosed within the base of the tube.
As soon as the confluent petioles protrude from the seed they bend down, as they are strongly geotropic, and penetrate the ground.
But the seeds of the present species in germinating behave like those of Megarrhiza, excepting that the elongated petioles of the cotyledons are not confluent.
This absence appeared in some, but not in all the cases, to be due to the leaflet having become completely confluent with the main petiole, as might be inferred from the presence of a slight ridge along its upper margin, and from the course of the vessels.
Delphinium nudicaule, mode of breaking through the ground, 80 --, confluent petioles of two cotyledons, 553 Desmodium gyrans, movement of leaflets, 257, n.
Its effects fall as far short of what might have been expected from its virulence as the pearly vaccine vesicle falls short of the terrors of the confluent small-pox.
As for the yellowness like a garment, that is too familiar to the eyes of all who have ever looked on the hideous mask of confluent variola.
They were quite surprised to find what a human old gentleman he was, and went back and told the others, that, instead of being a case of confluent sectarianism, as they supposed, the good old minister had been so well vaccinated with charitable virus that he was now a true, open-souled Christian of the mildest type.
Our scientists have no trouble fitting tab A into slot B, particularly with our knowledge of the confluent species that resembles yours in our biosphere.
In these six bladders, a large number of the quadrifid processes contained transparent, often yellowish, more or less confluent, spherical or irregularly shaped, masses of matter.
It will be interesting to discuss how far some of these movements may not become confluent with others and by a mere process of logical completion identify themselves consciously with the Open Conspiracy in its entirety.
His eyebrows are long and confluent, as if someone has taken a strip of downy fur and glued it on his brow.