Stylulus
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stylulus is a noun meaning (botany) The elongated apex of a free carpel which functions like the style of a syncarpous ovary, allowing pollen tubes from its stigma to enter the locule of only that carpel.
Meaning
(botany) The elongated apex of a free carpel which functions like the style of a syncarpous ovary, allowing pollen tubes from its stigma to enter the locule of only that carpel.
Word Forms
- styluli
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stylodium, style, stylus, stylopodium, pseudostyle, pistil.
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