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tetracolpate

tetracolpate adjective: having four grooves, or colpi, on each grain.

Adjective

tetracolpate (not comparable)

  1. Having four grooves, or colpi, on each grain.
    • The pollen grains are tetracolpate.

Noun

tetracolpate (plural tetracolpates)

  1. A plant with tetracolpate (four-grooved) pollen.

Forms of tetracolpate

pluraltetracolpates

Origin of tetracolpate

From tetra- + colpate.

Questions about tetracolpate

What does tetracolpate mean?
Tetracolpate means having four grooves, or colpi, on each grain.
What part of speech is tetracolpate?
Tetracolpate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near tetracolpate in the dictionary

  1. tetracoccous
  2. tetracola
  3. tetracolon
  4. tetracolons
  5. tetracolored
  6. tetracolpate
  7. tetracolpates
  8. tetracolporate
  9. tetracomplex
  10. tetracomplexes
  11. tetraconazol

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