intextine Bot.
(ɪnˈtɛkstɪn)
Also intexine.
[f. L. int-us within + extine.]
An inner coating of the pollen grain within the extine.
| 1835 Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 359 [Fritzche] speaks of four coatings to the pollen of Clarkia elegans, calling the fourth, which is near the extine, the Intexine. 1885 G. L. Goodale Phys. Bot. (1892) 428 note, Oenothera, where the extine separates into a true extine and an intextine. |