amb

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noun

The outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.

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Meanings

nounamb (plural ambs)

plural ambs

  1. biologyThe outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.

    This genus is distinguished from Duplopollis Krutzsch, 1959a, and Cupanieidites Cookson and Pike, 1954, by being syncolpate rather than syncolporate and by the islands at the angles of the amb.

    1970, Robert Max Kosanke, editor, Symposium on Palynology of the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary

Origin

From ambit, from Latin.

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Translations

Portuguese amb
  • amboutline of a spore or pollen grain

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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Chicago

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