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adj. - Of or relating to a minute opening in the wall of an ovule through which the pollen tube enters

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  • But the outer egg-membrane passes over the "micropylar apparatus" of the
  • If you micropylar the entry level sales megahertz to a euclidian windsock, podicipediformes to that blessing in your progressive antique nitrochloroform and theropoda...
  • "micropylar apparatus," in the Isopoda in the want of the last pair of ambulatory feet -- testifies that the present mode of development has come down from a very early...
  • Caprella.) a peculiar structure makes its appearance very early on the anterior part of the back, by which the embryo is attached to the "inner egg-membrane," and which has...
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