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noun

Confluent n.

A small steam which flows into a large one.

The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Confluent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Confluent" Quotes from Famous Books

... on rocks, pubescent or tomentose with much divided leaves. Sori at the end of the veins at first small and roundish, but afterwards more or less confluent. The indusium whitish and sometimes herbaceous, formed of the reflexed margin of the lobes or of the whole pinnule. Veins free, but often obscure. Most of the ferns of this genus grow in dry, exposed situations, where rain is sometimes absent for weeks and months. For this reason they protect ...

— The Fern Lover's Companion - A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada • George Henry Tilton

... passed from the same quarters; and generally gathered during the afternoon, and became very heavy. The thunder-storms veered round from the west by the north to the eastward. The nights of the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd were bright and cold, with heavy dew. On the morning of the 23rd we had misty, loose, confluent clouds, travelling slowly from the north-east, with some drops of rain. I was now convinced that the rainy season had set in near the sea coast; for the clouds which came from that direction, had evidently been charged with rain; ...

— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt

Words linked to "Confluent" : feeder, convergent, affluent, merging, confluence, tributary