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