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Colletor vs Collator - What's the difference?

colletor | collator |

As nouns the difference between colletor and collator

is that colletor is (botany) a multicellular trichome of a leaf or bud scale that produces a sticky secretion in other words, a group or tuft of mucilaginous secretory hairs, usually found near the base of the leaf lamina and on the calyx while collator is a person who collates.

colletor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A multicellular trichome of a leaf or bud scale that produces a sticky secretion. In other words, a group or tuft of mucilaginous secretory hairs, usually found near the base of the leaf lamina and on the calyx.
  • Colleters are found in members of the Apocynaceae and Asclepiadaceae families.

    References

    *A Text-book of Botany By Eduard Strasburger. Macmillan:1898, p. 98 (picture) [http://books.google.com/books?id=qqJuuC_L9yIC&pg=PA98&dq=Colletor+botany&ei=qe4_R-bRO4m6swOshsHWBg]

    collator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person who collates
  • (obsolete, computing) a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards; a program that merges files
  • a police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence