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poricidal

poricidal adjective: relating to poricide.

Adjective

poricidal (not comparable)

  1. Relating to poricide
    • The ancestral states for these are a corolla tube that is equal to slightly longer than the lobes, is inflated on the lower surface, two fertile stamens with poricidal dehiscence, and an exserted style that is bent downward (Fig. 8).2015 July 3, Zhi-Jing Qiu et al., “Origin and evolution of Petrocosmea (Gesneriaceae) inferred from both DNA sequence and novel findings in morphology with a test of morphology-based hypotheses”, in...

Words formed from poricidal

Questions about poricidal

What does poricidal mean?
Poricidal means relating to poricide.
What part of speech is poricidal?
Poricidal is an adjective.

Words near poricidal in the dictionary

  1. pori
  2. poria
  3. poribacteria
  4. poribacterial
  5. poribacterium
  6. poricidal
  7. poricidally
  8. poricide
  9. porifer
  10. poriferal
  11. poriferan

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