Home › Words › C › colporuscolporuscolporus means A compound aperture on a pollen tube consisting of a colpus and one or more pores.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, colporus ranks #31,189 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologyBy surface analysis, colpor- + -usnounA compound aperture on a pollen tube consisting of a colpus and one or more pores.e.g.“The three basic aperture types are the colpus, the pore and the colporus.” — 2003, Paul A Collinvaux, Paulo E. De Oliveira, Enrique Moreno, Amazon Pollen Manual and Atlas, page 66:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.colporate 77% match — Having apertures which combine a rounded pore and a colpus, or groove. vs colporus →colpus 75% match — A groove sometimes occurring on grains of pollen vs colporus →ectocolpus 70% match — A groove on the surface of a pollen grain vs colporus →anacolpate 69% match — Having a colpus, or groove, on the distal face of a pollen grain. vs colporus →colpate 69% match — Having one or more colpi, or grooves, on each pollen grain. vs colporus →ulcus 65% match — A rounded, pore-like aperture at either pole of a pollen grain. vs colporus →tricolporate 65% match — Having three colpi and pores. vs colporus →apocolpium 64% match — The region near the pole of some pollen grains which is bounded by the lines connected the colpal apices. vs colporus →