pollen
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
pollen (uncountable)
- A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.)
- (obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour. (16th-century usage documented by the OED.)
- "...and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne,... as well of pollen, as of other vitailes..." Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord
- French: pollen
- German: Blütenstaub, Pollen
- Italian: polline
- Portuguese: pólen
- Russian: пыльца́
- Spanish: polen
pollen (pollens, present participle pollening; past and past participle pollened)
- (transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
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