Term: pollen tube: (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
Candidate hypernym: plant part: any part of a plant or fungus → 1
Candidate hypernym: house finch: small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: bristle brush: a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant → 0
Candidate hypernym: lodestar: guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy → 0
Candidate hypernym: bilberry: blue-black berries similar to American blueberries → 0
Candidate hypernym: anacoluthia: an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another → 0
Candidate hypernym: pusher: an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs → 0
Candidate hypernym: shade: protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight → 0
Candidate hypernym: paretic: a person afflicted with paresis (partial paralysis) → 0
Candidate hypernym: gas shell: (military) bomb consisting of an explosive projectile filled with a toxic gas that is released when the bomb explodes → 0
Candidate hypernym: extraneousness: unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand → 0