concrescence noun. [kǝn'krɛs(ǝ)ns] E17.
[from CON- + -crescence, after excrescence etc.]
1. Growth by assimilation. Only in E17.

2. A concretion. Now rare or obsolete. E17.

3. Biology. The coalescence or growing together of parts originally separate; spec. that of the lips of the blastopore to form the body of an embryo. L19.

■ concrescent adjective growing together E20.

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