Bot. [a. Gr. *κολλητήρ one who glues, f. κολλᾶν to glue: see COLLETERIUM.] One of the glandular hairs found on many leaf-buds, etc., which secrete the blastocolla or bud-glue.
1875. Bennett & Dyer, trans. Sachs’ Bot., I. ii. 115. The parts of the bud are coated by a gummy substance … which he [Hanstein] calls Blastocolla, while the glandular hairs which produce them he terms Colleters. Ibid. The secretion of the colleters is a watery mucilage in Polygonum.
