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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
(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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: plant part, plant structure
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