stylulus
English
Noun
stylulus
(
plural
styluli
)
(
botany
)
The elongated
apex
of a free
carpel
which functions like the
style
of a
syncarpous
ovary
, allowing pollen tubes from its
stigma
to enter the
locule
of only that carpel.
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