English Explanatory Dictionary

pollen tube

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The tube that develops from the wall of a pollen grain and, in seed plants, provides a passage through which the male nuclei reach the embryo sac to effect fertilization.

Word forms

pollen tube pollen tubes
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