cryptoaperturate
Meanings
adj
- Describing a pollen grain in which the aperture is present but not in an obvious gap or furrow, instead covered or hidden by a continuous outer layer of the pollen wall that acts as a protective operculum.
Word forms
Etymology
From crypto- + aperturate.
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