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heterovalvate

heterovalvate adjective: having different (top and bottom) valves (of a diatom).

Adjective

heterovalvate (not comparable)

  1. Having different (top and bottom) valves (of a diatom)
    • Filaments up to 32 cells long were observed, capped with live heterovalvate end-cells where each possessed one of the initial valves.2015 October 21, “Auxosporulation in Paralia guyana MacGillivary (Bacillariophyta) and Possible New Insights into the Habit of the Earliest Diatoms”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of heterovalvate

From hetero- + valvate.

Questions about heterovalvate

What does heterovalvate mean?
Heterovalvate means having different (top and bottom) valves (of a diatom).
What part of speech is heterovalvate?
Heterovalvate is an adjective.

Words near heterovalvate in the dictionary

  1. heterousian
  2. heterovalence
  3. heterovalences
  4. heterovalent
  5. heterovalvar
  6. heterovalvate
  7. heterovariant
  8. heteroxanthin
  9. heteroxanthine
  10. heteroxenic
  11. heteroxenous

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