Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Connivent \Con*niv"ent\, a. [L. connivens, p. pr.]
   1. Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent
      justice. [R.] --Milton.

   2. (Biol.) Brought close together; arched inward so that the
      points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the
      connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds
      of membrane in the human system, etc.