tricolpate

English

Alternative forms

• 3-colpate

Etymology

From tri- +‎ colpate.

Adjective

tricolpate (not comparable)

1. (botany, palynology, of a pollen) Having three grooves, or colpi, on each grain.

   The pollen grains are tricolpate to tricolporoidate.

   Tricolpate pollen, the signature of eudicots, first appears ca. 110 million years ago.

Noun

tricolpate (plural tricolpates)

1. (botany, taxonomy) A plant with tricolpate (three-grooved) pollen, including any dicot.

Related terms

• Tricolpites
• tricolporate

References

• “tricolpate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “tricolpate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Pro-Tactile, ProTactile, Protactile