POLLEN TUBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pollen tube mean? 

• POLLEN TUBE (noun)
  The noun POLLEN TUBE has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: POLLEN TUBE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLLEN TUBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pollen tube" is a kind of...):

plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)