Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To transfer pollen from an anther of an angiosperm to (a stigma, flower, or plant).
- intransitive verb To transfer pollen from a microsporangium of a gymnosperm to (an ovule, cone, or plant).
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, to convey pollen to the stigma of; pollenize. See
pollination .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Bot.) To apply pollen to (a stigma).
- adjective (Zoöl.) Pollinose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To apply
pollen to (astigma ). - adjective zoology
Pollinose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb fertilize by transfering pollen
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To attract male wasps to pollinate them, the orchids not only look like an insect Marilyn Monroe, they exude a fragrance even more bewitching than the real sexual attractant of the females they're mimicking.
Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature Kenny Ausubel 2011
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To attract male wasps to pollinate them, the orchids not only look like an insect Marilyn Monroe, they exude a fragrance even more bewitching than the real sexual attractant of the females they're mimicking.
Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature Kenny Ausubel 2011
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From the one came the many, begot or pollinate by inspiration or its lack: Alamo RentaCar begat AlamoDome begat Alamo Frozen Burrito which in turn was father to Alamo Bowlarama.
Alamo Rag David Ackley 2011
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However, it needs the support, both of the local environment and of the government institutions, to take root and pollinate other would-be innovators.
Muhammad H. Zaman: Engineering a Healthy Tomorrow for the Poorest Billion Muhammad H. Zaman 2012
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As a rule, beans pollinate themselves so you don't have to worry about unwanted hybrids, courtesy of an earnest bee.
Groundwork: Beans, cute and dried Adrian Higgins 2010
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This would seem a trifling amount considering honey bees pollinate the majority of our fruits and vegetables and have been experiencing serious population decline.
Edward Flattau: Frivolous Pork Edward Flattau 2012
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It is specifically because Im a carrier of raconteurs disease, in its most virulent form, that I have come to realize that one can never really cross-pollinate the act of live storytelling with its literary reflection.
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Since we rely on bees to pollinate about one-third of our food base, the loss would reduce availability of those foods and increase prices.
New research on honeybee illness Post 2011
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I wish there were more "summit" events like this that cross-pollinate the sf/fantasy art and literary world with the world-at-large.
MIND MELD: What Can Worldcon and Comic-Con Learn From Each Other? 2009
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To pollinate most plum trees, bees are released into a covering wood and plastic structure, along with pollen-bearing bouquets from other plum or apricot trees.
When Apricot Met Plum... Melanie Grayce West 2011
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