tricolpate

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adjective

Having three grooves, or colpi, on each grain.

“The pollen grains are tricolpate to tricolporoidate.”

OriginEnglish colpate ← Latin tri- ← Proto-Italic *tri- →
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Meanings

adjectivetricolpate (not comparable)

alternative 3-colpate

  1. not comparablebiologyHaving three grooves, or colpi, on each grain.

    The pollen grains are tricolpate to tricolporoidate.

    1 more example

    Tricolpate pollen, the signature of eudicots, first appears ca. 110 million years ago.

nountricolpate (plural tricolpates)

plural tricolpates · alternative 3-colpate

  1. biologyA plant with tricolpate (three-grooved) pollen, including any dicot.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*tréyes
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tri-
  3. Proto-Italic*tri-
  4. Latintri-
  5. Englishtri-
  6. Englishcolpus
  7. Englishcolpate
  8. Englishtricolpate

From tri- + colpate.

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