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colporate

colporate adjective: having apertures which combine a rounded pore and a colpus, or groove.

Adjective

colporate (comparative more colporate, superlative most colporate)

  1. Having apertures which combine a rounded pore and a colpus, or groove.
    • Durio graveolens pollen is colporate

Forms of colporate

comparativemore colporate
superlativemost colporate

Origin of colporate

From colpus + pore + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, colpor- + -ate.

Words formed from colporate

Questions about colporate

What does colporate mean?
Colporate means having apertures which combine a rounded pore and a colpus, or groove.
What part of speech is colporate?
Colporate is an adjective.

Words near colporate in the dictionary

  1. colpoplastic
  2. colpoplasties
  3. colpoplasty
  4. colpopoiesis
  5. colpor-
  6. colporate
  7. colpori
  8. colporoidate
  9. colporrhagia
  10. colporrhagias
  11. colporrhaphies

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