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POLLEN TUBE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a pollen grain when deposited on the stigma for a flower; it penetrates the style and conveys the male gametes to the ovule
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pollen tube" is a kind of...):
plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
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