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What is the noun for micropyles?

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micropyle
  1. (botany) In seed-bearing plants, a small opening in the integuments of the ovule through which sperm are able to access the ovum.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It remains to be studied exactly how the pollen tubes reach the micropyle of the ovules.”
      “However, pollen tubes from control pollen showed normal morphology when growing towards the micropyle of an ovule in a HTS plant.”
      “The radicle and plumule form a small subglobose unit, the embryonic axis, whose acuminate lower end extends into the micropyle.”
micropyles
  1. plural of micropyle
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