colporate

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

colporate (comparative more colporate, superlative most colporate)

1. (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having apertures which combine a rounded pore and a colpus, or groove.

   Durio graveolens pollen is colporate

Derived terms

• tetracolporate
• tricolporate

 

Related terms

• colpate
• porate

References

• Petra Kaltenrieder, Peter von Ballmoos (2003 March 17) “TYPES OF APERTURES IN MICROSPORES”, in Introduction to Pollen Analysis‎^[1], Universität Bern, retrieved 10 November 2017
• “colporate”, in Mondofacto‎^[2], Mondofacto, 1997 October 9, archived from the original on 28 February 2015