Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fine powderlike material whose individual grains contain the male reproductive cells of seed plants. Pollen is produced in the anther in angiosperms and in the male cone in gymnosperms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fine yellowish dust or powder produced in the anther of a flower (whence it is discharged when mature), which when magnified is found to consist of separate grains of definite size and shape; the male or fecundating element in flowering plants: the homologue of the microspore in cryptogams.
- To cover or dust with pollen; supply with pollen. Tennyson, Voyage of maeldune.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Fine bran or flour.
- noun (Bot.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See
Flower , andIllust. ofFilament . - noun (Bot.) a particle or call of pollen.
- noun a pollinium.
- noun a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther.
- noun a slender tube which issues from the pollen grain on its contact with the stigma, which it penetrates, thus conveying, it is supposed, the fecundating matter of the grain to the ovule.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A fine
granular substance produced inflowers . Collective term forpollen grains ormicrospores produced in theanthers of flowering plants.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term pollen jockey is from an animated movie, Bee Movie, where Jerry Seinfeld’s bee character wants to become a pollen jocky, a favorite of my three year old grandson.
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How about the increase in pollen and ragweed every year?
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•In the spring, this technique also can leave your sheets coated in pollen, says Smith, who says her homeowner's association forbids hanging clothes lines.
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Like a big wind scoured out the dust and pollen from the valley.
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How few realize the health-giving properties given off by pines, especially when in blossom, when the pollen is prevalent in the air and is inhaled with great benefit, especially by those suffering with pulmonary diseases.
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The image at the beginning of this post is a picture of pollen from a holly plant.
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Finding that the “empathical link existing between human and other living beings” cannot be reliably counted on to spur people to take corrective measures, will they then commission the services of genetic engineers to enable the plants to produce an antidote in pollen form and to release it when needed whether one wants to be cured or not?
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The image at the beginning of this post is a picture of pollen from a holly plant.
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How few realize the health-giving properties given off by pines, especially when in blossom, when the pollen is prevalent in the air and is inhaled with great benefit, especially by those suffering with pulmonary diseases.
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How few realize the health-giving properties given off by pines, especially when in blossom, when the pollen is prevalent in the air and is inhaled with great benefit, especially by those suffering with pulmonary diseases.
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