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pollen tube

noun

Definition of POLLEN TUBE

:  a tube that is formed by a pollen grain and conveys the sperm nuclei to the embryo sac of an angiosperm or the archegonium of a gymnosperm
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First Known Use of POLLEN TUBE

1835

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