Noah Webster
Confluent
CONFLUENT, adjective [Latin]
1. Flowing together; meeting in their course, as two streams; as confluent streams.
2. In medical science, running together, and spreading over a large surface of the body; as the confluent small-pox.
3. In botany, united at the base; growing in tufts, as confluent leaves; running into each other, as confluent lobes.