Acalymmate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Acalymmate is an adjective meaning (palynology) 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.
Meaning
(palynology) 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.
Example Sentences
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 […]).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include anacolpate, anatreme, alete, acalycal, anaporate, polliniate.
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