Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heterocolpate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: het-e-ro-col-pate
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having both simple and compound colpi.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Heterocolpate pollen grains occur in some genera in which both colporate and simple colpi are found."

Etymology

From hetero- + colpate.

Questions

What does heterocolpate mean?: Having both simple and compound colpi.
Where does heterocolpate come from?: From hetero- + colpate.

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