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heterocolpate

heterocolpate adjective: having both simple and compound colpi.

Adjective

heterocolpate (not comparable)

  1. Having both simple and compound colpi.
    • There are thus transitional stages between tetrads and monads (i.e. pollen grains shed singly), between saccate (=vesiculate) and non-saccate, fenestrate and non-fenestrate, heterocolpate and non-heterocolpate grains, etc.2013 October 22, W. B. Turrill, Vistas in Botany: Recent Researches in Plant Taxonomy, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 25
    • Heterocolpate pollen grains occur in some genera in which both colporate and simple colpi are found.2018 December 19, Heine Klaus, Palaeoecology of Africa and the Surrounding Islands - Volume 26, Routledge, →ISBN

Origin of heterocolpate

From hetero- + colpate.

Questions about heterocolpate

What does heterocolpate mean?
Heterocolpate means having both simple and compound colpi.
What part of speech is heterocolpate?
Heterocolpate is an adjective.

Words near heterocolpate in the dictionary

  1. heterococcoliths
  2. heterocodeine
  3. heterocoelous
  4. heterocoely
  5. heterocolonial
  6. heterocolpate
  7. heterocolporate
  8. heterocomplex
  9. heterocomplexation
  10. heterocomplexations
  11. heterocomplexes

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