colporate

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English

Etymology

From colpus +‎ pore +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

colporate (comparative more colporate, superlative most colporate)

  1. (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having apertures which combine a rounded pore and a colpus, or groove.
    Durio graveolens pollen is colporate

Derived terms

References

  • Petra Kaltenrieder, Peter von Ballmoos (2003 March 17) “TYPES OF APERTURES IN MICROSPORES”, in Introduction to Pollen Analysis, Universität Bern, retrieved 10 November 2017
  • “colporate”, in Mondofacto, Mondofacto, 1997 October 9, archived from the original on 28 February 2015