<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>existing in a person or thing from birth or origin; inborn: a connate sense of right and wrong.</li><li>associated in birth or origin.</li><li>allied or agreeing in nature; cognate.</li><li>Anatomy: firmly united; fused.</li><li>Botany: congenitally joined, as leaves.</li><li>Geology: trapped in sediment at the time the sediment was deposited: connate water.</li></ul>