germ tube

noun

1. botany a tube produced by a germinating spore, such as the pollen tube produced by a pollen grain

Example Sentences

Then it isolates itself from the germ-tube by a septum, and takes all the essential characteristics of the parent conidium.

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The oospore on germination usually gives origin to a zoosporangium, but may form directly a germ tube which infects the host.

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The germ tube is rather smaller at its base than further on.

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