pollen
IPA: pˈɑɫʌn
noun
- A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
- (botany) Pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants.
- (obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour.
verb
- (transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
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Examples of "pollen" in Sentences
- Pollen contains the male gametes.
- Pollen is one of the byproducts of the hive.
- The effect is to load the insect with pollen.
- The sterile pollen is located in the anthers.
- The flowers will wither if the pollen is blown away.
- How about the increase in pollen and ragweed every year?
- The bee collects the pollen by rubbing against the anthers.
- The bee and other bees were literally rolling in the pollen.
- They use the pollen of the flowers to camouflage themselves.
- Like a big wind scoured out the dust and pollen from the valley.
- The pollen trap makes access to the hive harder for the foraging bees.
- A small brush is used to paint the pollen on the flower of the second plant.
- The image at the beginning of this post is a picture of pollen from a holly plant.
- •In the spring, this technique also can leave your sheets coated in pollen, says Smith, who says her homeowner's association forbids hanging clothes lines.
- The term pollen jockey is from an animated movie, Bee Movie, where Jerry Seinfeld’s bee character wants to become a pollen jocky, a favorite of my three year old grandson.
- How few realize the health-giving properties given off by pines, especially when in blossom, when the pollen is prevalent in the air and is inhaled with great benefit, especially by those suffering with pulmonary diseases.
- Finding that the “empathical link existing between human and other living beings” cannot be reliably counted on to spur people to take corrective measures, will they then commission the services of genetic engineers to enable the plants to produce an antidote in pollen form and to release it when needed whether one wants to be cured or not?