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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pollenization.

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  • noun transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant

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Examples

  • Due to their near extinction some eighty years previous, and the threat this had posed to mankind, live bees had been replaced by tiny, sophisticated robots, for the sole purpose of pollenation.

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  • I don't really support creative isolation in any case - in listening to music, part of the joy of appreciation is being able to recognise the genesis of a work in an earlier piece..cross pollenation is so interesting.

    Creative isolation or arrogant self-absorption? Imogen 2009

  • It would be great to have them all together on one site and get a bit of cross pollenation going.

    February 2006 2006

  • It would be great to have them all together on one site and get a bit of cross pollenation going.

    Web 2.0 Ireland Portal idea 2006

  • And I don't know about cross-pollenation at Nick, but Cartoon Network has had people show-hop.

    At Film Roman Steve Hulett 2008

  • Yea, yea, yea I know all about the pollenation issue, my father was a farmer.

    Japanese Bees and European Bees Against Hornet Predators 2006

  • "The [cross-pollenation] between the credit-risk team and the market-risk team was not as strong as it needed to be,"

    Once Again, the Risk Protection Fails 2008

  • The funny thing is that I was reading all about seed saving at the end of last year... learning properly for the first time really about cross-pollenation, hybrids and how much this varies between species.

    pumpzini? esther 2007

  • The funny thing is that I was reading all about seed saving at the end of last year... learning properly for the first time really about cross-pollenation, hybrids and how much this varies between species.

    Archive 2007-01-01 esther 2007

  • Of course, the cross-pollenation plan requires years.

    FEDERATION OF WOMEN 1965

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