ENATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enation mean? 

• ENATION (noun)
  The noun ENATION has 2 senses:

1. line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family

2. a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ

  Familiarity information: ENATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

cognation; enation; matrilineage

Hypernyms ("enation" is a kind of...):

unilateral descent (line of descent traced through one side of the family)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

enation; plant process

Hypernyms ("enation" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enation"):

podetium (an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne)

peristome ((botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule)

haustorium (a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host)

apophysis ((botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers)

callus ((botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid)

blister ((botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin)

nodule; tubercle (small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant)

spur (tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers)

aculeus (a stiff sharp-pointed plant process)

acumen (a tapering point)

fuzz; hair; tomentum (filamentous hairlike growth on a plant)

leaf node; node ((botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge)

burl (a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree)