Tricolpate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Tricolpate is an adjective meaning (botany, palynology, of a pollen) Having three grooves, or colpi, on each grain.
Meaning
(botany, palynology, of a pollen) Having three grooves, or colpi, on each grain.
More Meanings
- (botany, taxonomy) A plant with tricolpate (three-grooved) pollen, including any dicot.
Example Sentences
The pollen grains are tricolpate to tricolporoidate.
Tricolpate pollen, the signature of eudicots, first appears ca. 110 million years ago.
Word Forms
- tricolpates
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pollen, tricolporate, bicolpate, pluricolpate, triplicostate, tricoccous.
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