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tricolpate

tricolpate adjective: having three grooves, or colpi, on each grain.

Adjective

tricolpate (not comparable)

  1. Having three grooves, or colpi, on each grain.
    • The pollen grains are tricolpate to tricolporoidate.
    • Tricolpate pollen, the signature of eudicots, first appears ca. 110 million years ago.

Noun

tricolpate (plural tricolpates)

  1. A plant with tricolpate (three-grooved) pollen, including any dicot.

Forms of tricolpate

Adjective
alternative form3-colpate
Noun
pluraltricolpates

Origin of tricolpate

From tri- + colpate.

Questions about tricolpate

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

Words near tricolpate in the dictionary

  1. tricolour sharkminnows
  2. tricolour sharks
  3. tricoloured
  4. tricolourous
  5. tricolours
  6. tricolpate
  7. tricolpates
  8. tricolporate
  9. tricolporoidate
  10. tricolumnar
  11. tricompartmental

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