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Sulcate vs Colpate - What's the difference?

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Colpate is a related term of sulcate.



As adjectives the difference between sulcate and colpate

is that sulcate is having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows while colpate is having one or more colpi, or grooves, on each pollen grain.

sulcate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.14:
  • *:The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.

    • Related terms

    * sulcation ----

    colpate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (palynology, of pollen) Having one or more colpi, or grooves, on each pollen grain.

    • Derived terms

    * dicolpate * geminicolpate * tetracolpate * tricolpate

    Related terms

    * colporate * porate * sulcate

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