cryptoaperturate

English

Etymology

From crypto- +‎ aperturate.

Adjective

cryptoaperturate (not comparable)

  1. 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.
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