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colporus

colporus noun: a compound aperture on a pollen tube consisting of a colpus and one or more pores.

Noun

colporus (plural colpori)

  1. A compound aperture on a pollen tube consisting of a colpus and one or more pores.
    • The three basic aperture types are the colpus, the pore and the colporus.2003, Paul A Collinvaux, Paulo E. De Oliveira, Enrique Moreno, Amazon Pollen Manual and Atlas, page 66

Forms of colporus

pluralcolpori

Origin of colporus

By surface analysis, colpor- + -us

Questions about colporus

What does colporus mean?
Colporus means a compound aperture on a pollen tube consisting of a colpus and one or more pores.
What part of speech is colporus?
Colporus is a noun.
What is the plural of colporus?
The plural of colporus is colpori.

Words near colporus in the dictionary

  1. colporters
  2. colporteur
  3. colporteurs
  4. colporting
  5. colports
  6. colporus
  7. colposcope
  8. colposcopes
  9. colposcopic
  10. colposcopical
  11. colposcopically

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