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colletor

colletor noun: 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.

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 colletor

pluralcolletors

Questions about colletor

What does colletor mean?
Colletor means 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.
What part of speech is colletor?
Colletor is a noun.
What is the plural of colletor?
The plural of colletor is colletors.

Words near colletor in the dictionary

  1. colletids
  2. colletin
  3. colletins
  4. Colleton
  5. Colleton County
  6. colletor
  7. colletors
  8. collets
  9. Collett
  10. Colletta
  11. Collettas

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