extine

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Etymology

From Latin exter (“on the outside”). Compare intine.

Noun

extine (plural extines)

  1. (botany) The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “extine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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