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haptonemata

haptonemata is the plural of haptonema.

Meaning of haptonema

Noun

haptonema (plural haptonemas or haptonemata)

  1. In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.

Questions about haptonemata

What is haptonemata the plural of?
Haptonemata is the plural of haptonema.

Words near haptonemata in the dictionary

  1. Hapton
  2. haptonastic
  3. haptonasty
  4. haptonema
  5. haptonemas
  6. haptonemata
  7. haptonomy
  8. haptophore
  9. haptophores
  10. haptophycean
  11. haptophyceans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haptonemata (page history and authors); haptonema (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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