Pollen

Noun



 * 1) A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Collective term for pollen grains or microspores produced in the anthers of flowering plants.

Derived terms

 * pollen analysis
 * pollenarious
 * pollen basket
 * pollen count
 * pollen counter
 * pollen grain
 * polleniferous
 * pollenize, pollenise
 * pollenlike
 * pollen mother cell
 * pollen parent
 * pollen sac
 * pollen tube
 * polleny

Adjectives for Pollen
wind-blown; insect-borne; widespread.

Verbs for Pollen
carry—; diffuse—; disperse—; disseminate —; dust with—; gather—; issue—; sensi¬tize to—; shed—; sprinkle—; strew—; — drifts; —fertilizes; —germinates; —scatters ; —seeds; —sows.

Thesaurus
androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, male gamete, milt, protein, scum, seed, semen, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium, spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium, spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa, spermatozoid, spermatozoon

Etymology
From pollen:, used by Linnaeus to describe the substance produced in flowers.

Translations

 * Armenian: ծաղկափոշի
 * Basque: lore-hauts, polen
 * Catalan: pol·len
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Min Nan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: pollen, virágpor
 * Hungarian: pollen, virágpor


 * Icelandic:
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 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Polish: pyłek
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: пыльца, цветень
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: полен, пелуд
 * Roman: polen, pelud
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1) pollen

Verb

 * 1)  to poll, to periodically check the status of a device or variable.

Noun

 * 1) pollen

Verb
pollen


 * 1)  to poll, to periodically check the status of a device or variable.