Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

colporus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: col-porus
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

By surface analysis, colpor- + -us

Inflected Forms

colpori (plural)

Questions

What does colporus mean?: A compound aperture on a pollen tube consisting of a colpus and one or more pores.
Where does colporus come from?: By surface analysis, colpor- + -us

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