Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the contents of a pollen-grain, consisting of coarsely granular protoplasm and other matters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.
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- noun botany One of the fine
granules in theprotoplasm of apollen grain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Again, the pollen-tube of the abnormal grains cracked, in its turn, on mere exposure to the air, and liberated the fovilla, so that the pollen of these atrophied anthers was necessarily impotent, because it opened before it could be applied to the stigma, even had that been rendered possible by the opening of the anther.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The males, or stamens, have their anthers replete with a prolific powder containing the vivifying fovilla: in the females, or pistils, exists the ovary, terminated by the tubular stigma.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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When the anthers burst and shed their bags of dust, the male fovilla is received by the prolific lymph of the stigma, and produces the seed or egg, which is nourished in the ovary.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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A part of the flower, big with pollen or farina, which A N which it emits or explodes when ripe: or, big with granulated pollen, and that with fovilla.
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Pars jloris gravida pslliue, quod matura dimittit: or, foeta granulato polline, et hoc fovilla.
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