heterovalvate

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adjective

Having different (top and bottom) valves (of a diatom)

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Meanings

adjectiveheterovalvate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving different (top and bottom) valves (of a diatom)

    Filaments up to 32 cells long were observed, capped with live heterovalvate end-cells where each possessed one of the initial valves.

    2015 October 21, “Auxosporulation in Paralia guyana MacGillivary (Bacillariophyta) and Possible New Insights into the Habit of the Earliest Diatoms”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From hetero- + valvate.

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