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pericolpate en · ADJ

Etymology

From peri- + colpate.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a pollen grain) Having colpi located in a non-central position.
    • Erdman would call many of the "colpi" of a pericolpate grain sulculi, as they are not meridional, do not cross the equator, but are more-or-less parallel to it, or colpoids, if otherwise located. 2007, Alfred Traverse, Paleopalynology, page 120: