Vocabulary Word
Word: adherent
Definition: supporter; follower
Definition: supporter; follower
Sentences Containing 'adherent'
I may add, as an instance of this fact, and as a striking case of correlation, that in many pelargoniums the two upper petals in the central flower of the truss often lose their patches of darker colour; and when this occurs, the adherent nectary is quite aborted, the central flower thus becoming peloric or regular.
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::: plausible - conceivably true; having a show of truth but open to doubt; specious
::: ancestry - family descent; ADJ. ancestral
::: advocacy - support; active pleading on behalf of someone or something
::: semblance - outward appearance; guise; Ex. We called in the troops to bring a/some semblance of order to the city.
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::: lineaments - features especially of the face; distinctive shape or contour of the face; CF. line
