colporate

English

Etymology

colpus +‎ -pore +‎ -ate

Adjective

colporate (comparative more colporate, superlative most colporate)

  1. (palynology, of pollen) a pollen grain having apertures which combine a rounded pore and a colpus, or groove.
    Durio graveolens pollen is colporate

References
  • Petra Kaltenrieder; Peter von Ballmoos (17 March 2003), “TYPES OF APERTURES IN MICROSPORES”, in Introduction to Pollen Analysis‎, Universität Bern, retrieved 10 November 2017
  • “colporate”, in Mondofacto‎, Mondofacto, 09 October 1997, retrieved 10 November 2017

Derived terms
  • tricolporate
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