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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
pollinate .
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Examples
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Picker's cockroach is joined on the list by a mushroom that glows in the dark and another that blooms underwater, a spider that weaves giant webs, bacteria found on the remains of the Titanic, a fish found in Gulf of Mexico waters affected by the 2010 oil spill, a leech with enormous teeth, a cricket that pollinates a rare orchid, a giant, fruit-eating lizard, and a small antelope from West Africa.
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Once you introduce alfafa, which pollinates by the wind, you can't guarantee that any alfafa doesn't have genetically modified seed in it.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Obama Lacks Vision on Energy, Stomach to Defend EPA The Media Consortium 2011
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Once you introduce alfafa, which pollinates by the wind, you can't guarantee that any alfafa doesn't have genetically modified seed in it.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Obama Lacks Vision on Energy, Stomach to Defend EPA The Media Consortium 2011
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It is, he said, likely to be a tree that pollinates on the same schedule.
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One could also say a documentary spirit that cross-pollinates from Alice Neel to films like "Grey Gardens" or "Harlan Country USA".
Kimberly Brooks: Artist Angela Dufresne On Recreating History 2010
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Which in turn pollinates similar ideas in their own writing.
Genres of Fiction, and Why They Aren’t Discrete Entities 2010
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Based on a fictitious family that cross-pollinates Monkees with Gorillaz, and Fat Albert and the Gang Of Four, this "animated" group from Cleveland, Ohio (complete with a lifestyle website), has just released its first album, Get It Together.
Mike Ragogna: Not Just Kid Stuff: From Kidz Bop to The Fuzzy Stones 2009
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Snarge (the mess left when a bird collides with a plane, I read about how the birds are indentified by said remains); imbricate (some research on humor produced this one -- to overlap like tiles or fish scales) and euglossine (a type of bee that pollinates orchids).
Silence and Words Michelle 2009
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Snarge (the mess left when a bird collides with a plane, I read about how the birds are indentified by said remains); imbricate (some research on humor produced this one -- to overlap like tiles or fish scales) and euglossine (a type of bee that pollinates orchids).
Archive 2009-04-01 Michelle 2009
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That pollen is picked up by a bee or the wind and carried to another field where it randomly pollinates an unprotected plant.
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