colpate

English

Etymology

From colpus +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

colpate (comparative more colpate, superlative most colpate)

1. (palynology, of pollen) Having one or more colpi, or grooves, on each pollen grain.

Coordinate terms

• (pollen grain feature): sulcate, saccate, aperturate, spinulose, reticulate, operculate

Derived terms

• anacolpate
• bicolpate
• dicolpate
• geminicolpate
• longicolpate
• monocolpate
• pluricolpate
• polycolpate
• pseudocolpate
• tetracolpate
• tricolpate
• zonocolpate

 

Related terms

• colporate
• porate

Anagrams

• polecat, pot lace

Spanish

Verb

colpate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of colpar combined with te