CONCRETE

adj. Koau-kret'. Lat., concretus (from concrescere, to grow together). Fr., concret. Ger., verdickt. It., Sp., concreto. In botany, united or consolidated into a ma (said of organs and also of the juices or sap of plants when solidified, as in the manna of the Ornus, etc.); in pharmacy, solidified (said of oils that thicken from oxidation or exposure to the air); in chemistry, solid in contradistinction to liquid. [B, 2, 5, 121 (a, 24).] [s. 369]