acalymmate

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adjective

Forming clusters of pollen grains (usually tetrads or polyads) in which the sexines of the respective grains do not merge to form a continuous sheath.

OriginEnglish calymmate ← Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) ← Proto-Hellenic *ə- →
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Meanings

adjectiveacalymmate (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyForming clusters of pollen grains (usually tetrads or polyads) in which the sexines of the respective grains do not merge to form a continuous sheath.

    When loosely associated, each tetrad retains most of its outer exine layer, leading to calymmate tetrads, but an acalymmate massula (since the exine is not continuous around each massula […]).

    1996, John V. Freudenstein, Finn N. Rasmussen, “Sectile Pollinia and Relationships in the Orchideaceae”, in Plant Systematics and Evolution, volume 205, →DOI, pages 125–146

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Hellenic*ə-
  4. Ancient Greekἀ- (a-)
  5. Englisha-
  6. Englishcalymmate
  7. Englishacalymmate

From a- + calymmate.

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Chicago

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