pollen tube

English

Noun

pollen tube (plural pollen tubes)

1. (botany) The tube that develops from the wall of a pollen grain and, in seed plants, provides a passage through which the male nuclei reach the embryo sac to effect fertilization.

Translations

tube that develops from a pollen grain

• French: tube pollinique (fr) m
• German: Pollenschlauch m
• Italian: tubo pollinico m
• Portuguese: tubo polínico m
• Spanish: tubo polínico m