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colleter

colleter is the alternative form of colletor.

Meaning of colletor

Noun

colletor (plural colletors)

  1. A multicellular trichome of a leaf or bud scale that produces a sticky secretion; a group or tuft of mucilaginous secretory hairs, usually found near the base of the leaf lamina and on the calyx.
    • Colletors are found in members of the Apocynaceae and Asclepiadaceae families.

Forms of colleter

pluralcolleters

Questions about colleter

What is colleter the alternative form of?
Colleter is the alternative form of colletor.

Words near colleter in the dictionary

  1. colles
  2. Colles' fracture
  3. Collessie
  4. collet
  5. colleted
  6. colleter
  7. colleteria
  8. colleterial
  9. colleterial gland
  10. colleterium
  11. colleters

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