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pollen tubes

pollen tubes is the plural of pollen tube.

Meaning of pollen tube

Noun

pollen tube (plural pollen tubes)

  1. The tube that develops from the wall of a pollen grain and, in seed plants, provides a passage through which the male nuclei reach the embryo sac to effect fertilization.

Questions about pollen tubes

What is pollen tubes the plural of?
Pollen tubes is the plural of pollen tube.

Words near pollen tubes in the dictionary

  1. pollen parents
  2. pollen season
  3. pollen seasons
  4. pollen spore
  5. pollen tube
  6. pollen tubes
  7. pollen vortex
  8. pollen vortexes
  9. pollen vortices
  10. pollen wasp
  11. pollen wasps

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