Adherent

1. n. That which adheres; an appendage.
2. a. Sticking; clinging; adhering.
3. a. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
4. a. Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.
5. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.