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pollen tube
noun
(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
Topics: ↑botany, ↑phytology
Hypernyms: ↑plant part, ↑plant structure

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ˈpollen tube 7 [pollen tube] noun (biology)
a tube that grows when ↑pollen lands on the ↑stigma (= a part of the female organ) of a flower to carry the male cell to the ↑ovule (= the part that contains the female cell)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.