Colletor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Colletor is a noun meaning (botany) A multicellular trichome of a leaf or bud scale that produces a sticky secretion; a group or tuft of mucilaginous secretory hairs, usually found near the base of the leaf lamina and on the calyx.
Meaning
(botany) A multicellular trichome of a leaf or bud scale that produces a sticky secretion; a group or tuft of mucilaginous secretory hairs, usually found near the base of the leaf lamina and on the calyx.
Example Sentences
Colletors are found in members of the Apocynaceae and Asclepiadaceae families.
Word Forms
- colletors
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include colleter, collocyte, collophore, colleterium, collet, corollet.
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