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pollen
[ pol-uhn ]
noun
- the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.
verb (used with object)
- to pollinate.
pollen
1/ pəˈlɪnɪk; ˈpɒlən /
noun
- a fine powdery substance produced by the anthers of seed-bearing plants, consisting of numerous fine grains containing the male gametes
Pollen
2/ ˈpɒlən /
noun
- PollenDaniel18131896MNew ZealandIrishPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister Daniel. 1813–96, New Zealand statesman, born in Ireland: prime minister of New Zealand (1876)
pollen
/ pŏl′ən /
- Powdery grains that contain the male reproductive cells of most plants. In gymnosperms, pollen is produced by male cones or conelike structures. In angiosperms, pollen is produced by the anthers at the end of stamens in flowers. Each pollen grain contains a generative cell, which divides into two nuclei (one of which fertilizes the egg), and a tube cell, which grows into a pollen tube to conduct the generative cell or the nuclei into the ovule. The pollen grain is the male gametophyte generation of seed-bearing plants. In gymnosperms, each pollen grain also contains two sterile cells (called prothallial cells), thought to be remnants of the vegetative tissue of the male gametophyte.
pollen
- The male sex cells in plants. In flowering plants, pollen is produced in thin filaments in the flower called stamens . ( See fertilization and pollination .)
Notes
Derived Forms
- pollinic, adjective
Other Words From
- pollen·less adjective
- pollen·like adjective
- pol·lin·ic [p, uh, -, lin, -ik], pol·lini·cal adjective
- un·pollened adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of pollen1
Word History and Origins
Origin of pollen1
Example Sentences
They are essential to ecosystems, and we use them for everything from seeds to oil to pollen to decoration.
The bees even demand, “Give us your pollen.”
"This suggests that what we are seeing is an effect of weather on the flowering plants that bees depend on for pollen and nectar, and this in turn affects the bees."
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have identified how the first domino falls after a person encounters an allergen, such as peanuts, shellfish, pollen or dust mites.
Plants provide energy and nutrition, mostly in the form of nectar and pollen, while the visiting pollinators distribute the plants’ genes.
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