heterocolpate

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adjective

Having both simple and compound colpi.

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Meanings

adjectiveheterocolpate (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyHaving both simple and compound colpi.

    Heterocolpate pollen grains occur in some genera in which both colporate and simple colpi are found.

    2018 December 19, Heine Klaus, Palaeoecology of Africa and the Surrounding Islands - Volume 26, Routledge, →ISBN
    1 more example

    There are thus transitional stages between tetrads and monads (i.e. pollen grains shed singly), between saccate (=vesiculate) and non-saccate, fenestrate and non-fenestrate, heterocolpate and non-heterocolpate grains, etc.

    2013 October 22, W. B. Turrill, Vistas in Botany: Recent Researches in Plant Taxonomy, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 25

Origin

From hetero- + colpate.

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