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(botany, palynology, of a pollen) Having three grooves, or colpi, on each grain..
The pollen grains are tricolpate to tricolporoidate.
Tricolpate pollen, the signature of eudicots, first appears ca. 110 million years ago.
Use tricolpate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tricolpate means (botany, palynology, of a pollen) Having three grooves, or colpi, on each grain..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The pollen grains are tricolpate to tricolporoidate.
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