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pericolpate

pericolpate adjective: having colpi located in a non-central position.

Adjective

pericolpate (not comparable)

  1. Having colpi located in a non-central position.
    • Erdman would call many of the "colpi" of a pericolpate grain sulculi, as they are not meridional, do not cross the equator, but are more-or-less parallel to it, or colpoids, if otherwise located.2007, Alfred Traverse, Paleopalynology, page 120

Origin of pericolpate

From peri- + colpate.

Questions about pericolpate

What does pericolpate mean?
Pericolpate means having colpi located in a non-central position.
What part of speech is pericolpate?
Pericolpate is an adjective.

Words near pericolpate in the dictionary

  1. pericolic
  2. pericolitis
  3. pericollateral
  4. pericolonic
  5. pericolorectal
  6. pericolpate
  7. pericolporate
  8. pericombobulation
  9. pericombobulations
  10. pericommissural
  11. periconception

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