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Agnate vs Adnate - What's the difference?

agnate | adnate |

As adjectives the difference between agnate and adnate

is that agnate is related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family while adnate is (botany|mycology) linked or fused to something unlike itself.

As a noun agnate

is a relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.

agnate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
    • A great grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.
  • *
  • Any paternal male relative.

    • Antonyms

    * enate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
  • allied; akin
  • * Landor
    • Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.
  • (label) Having a similar semantic meaning.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * agnatic, patrilineal

    Derived terms

    * agnatic * agnation

    Anagrams

    * ----

    adnate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany, mycology) Linked or fused to something unlike itself.
    • Adnate mushroom gills are broadly attached to the stalk slightly above the bottom of the gill, with most of the gill fused to the stem.
    An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.
  • (zoology) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

    • Derived terms

    * adnation

    Antonyms

    * connate ----