concrescence


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
concrescence /kənˈkrɛs(ə)ns/
noun Biology the coalescence or growing together of separate parts.
– derivatives
concrescent adjective.
– origin C17: from con- + -crescence, on the pattern of words such as excrescence.
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