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mycropyle

mycropyle is the obsolete form of micropyle.

Meaning of micropyle

Noun

micropyle (plural micropyles)

  1. In seed-bearing plants, a small opening in the integuments of the ovule through which sperm are able to access the ovum.
  2. The hilum of an ovum at the point of attachment to the ovary; any opening in the coverings of an ovum by which spermatozoa may find entrance.

Forms of mycropyle

pluralmycropyles

Questions about mycropyle

What is mycropyle the obsolete form of?
Mycropyle is the obsolete form of micropyle.

Words near mycropyle in the dictionary

  1. mycoyltransferases
  2. mycrocyst
  3. mycrocysts
  4. Mycroft
  5. mycroprotein
  6. mycropyle
  7. mycropyles
  8. mycrozyme
  9. mycrozymes
  10. myctag
  11. myctags

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mycropyle (page history and authors); micropyle (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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