"pollen tube" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pollen tubes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pollen tube (plural pollen tubes)
  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 Wikipedia link: pollen tube Translations (tube that develops from a pollen grain): tube pollinique [masculine] (French), Pollenschlauch [masculine] (German), tubo pollinico [masculine] (Italian), tubo polínico [masculine] (Portuguese), tubo polínico [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-pollen_tube-en-noun-rtxLeRtt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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