Heterocolpate

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having both simple and compound colpi. not-comparable

    "There are thus transitional stages between tetrads and monads (i.e. pollen grains shed singly), between saccate (=vesiculate) and non-saccate, fenestrate and non-fenestrate, heterocolpate and non-heterocolpate grains, etc."

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"There are thus transitional stages between tetrads and monads (i.e. pollen grains shed singly), between saccate (=vesiculate) and non-saccate, fenestrate and non-fenestrate, heterocolpate and non-heterocolpate grains, etc."

Etymology

From hetero- + colpate.

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