Colporus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A compound aperture on a pollen tube consisting of a colpus and one or more pores.

    "The three basic aperture types are the colpus, the pore and the colporus."

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"The three basic aperture types are the colpus, the pore and the colporus."

Etymology

By surface analysis, colpor- + -us

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