tricolpate

• 3-colpate

From tri- +‎ colpate.

tricolpate (not comparable)

1. (botany, palynology, of a pollen) Having three grooves, or colpi, on each grain.

   The pollen grains are tricolpate to tricolporoidate.

   Tricolpate pollen, the signature of eudicots, first appears ca. 110 million years ago.

tricolpate (plural tricolpates)

1. (botany, taxonomy) A plant with tricolpate (three-grooved) pollen, including any dicot.

• Tricolpites
• tricolporate

• “tricolpate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tricolpate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Pro-Tactile, ProTactile, Protactile