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n. A supporter, as of a cause or individual: a vote that pleased adherents of education reform.

adj. Sticking or holding fast.

adj. Botany Joined but not united. Used of dissimilar parts or organs.

adj. Adhesive, sticking to something.

adj. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.

adj. Attaching or pressing against a different organ.

n. A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

adj. Sticking; clinging; adhering.

adj. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.

adj. Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

n. One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

n. That which adheres; an appendage.

Sticking; clinging; adhering.

In botany, congenitally united, as parts that are normally separate: generally used as equivalent to adnate. See cut under adnate. In logic and metaphysics, accidentally connected; not belonging to the nature of a thing; not inherent: as, if a cloth is wet, its wetness is a quality adherent to it, not inherent in it.

n. A person who adheres; one who follows or upholds a leader, party, cause, opinion, or the like; a follower, partizan, or supporter.

n. Anything outwardly belonging to a person; an appendage.

n. Synonyms Disciple, pupil, upholder, supporter, dependant.

adj. sticking fast

n. someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another

"The slain Mungiki adherent is the fourth sect member to be killed by police after members of the outlawed sect hacked two police officers and set their bodies ablaze last Wednesday."

adhesive   

disciple    partizan   

inherent    adherence    adhesive    coherent    adhere   

sticking    clinging    adhering    upholder    partisan    ally    follower    backer    supporter    disciple   

coherent    incoherent    inherent   

admirer    follower    supporter    partisan    advocate    defender    adherence    worshipper    devotee    convert