Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

acalymmate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: aca-lym-mate
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Forming clusters of pollen grains (usually tetrads or polyads) in which the sexines of the respective grains do not merge to form a continuous sheath.

Example Sentences

"When loosely associated, each tetrad retains most of its outer exine layer, leading to calymmate tetrads, but an acalymmate massula (since the exine is not continuous around each massula […])."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English calymmate English acalymmate From a- + calymmate.

Frequently Paired Words

calymma

Questions

What does acalymmate mean?: Forming clusters of pollen grains (usually tetrads or polyads) in which the sexines of the respective grains do not merge to form a continuous sheath.
Where does acalymmate come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English calymmate English acalymmate From a- + calymmate.

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