English Explanatory Dictionary

colporate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having apertures which combine a rounded pore and a colpus, or groove.

Word forms

colporate more colporate most colporate

Etymology

From colpus + pore + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, colpor- + -ate.

Related words

colpate porate

Derived words

tetracolporate tricolporate
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