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pollen

[ US /ˈpɑɫən/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒlən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant

How To Use pollen In A Sentence

  • The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion. Honeybees in Danger
  • The dominant ones were tree rings, and ice cores, but others like varves, pollen, lichens, historic soil temperatures, sea level (eustasy), land levels (isostasy) require similar audits. Merry Christmas « Climate Audit
  • Pollen is dust gathered by bees from stamens and collected from the hives as tiny pellets.
  • However, it is hardly an unsolvable mystery: remember that there were plants with sap, leaves, seeds, spores and pollen in the Paleozoic, long before flowering plants appeared.
  • One means of correcting this mistake is to graft a limb of an appropriate pollenizer (generally a variety of crabapple) every six trees or so. Pollination
  • Hay fever is really an allergy to pollen and the peak time is early June.
  • The pollen from a mallow flower. Its spines help it cling to birds' feathers .
  • The farther pollen rides the artificial gusts, the more likely it belongs to a wind-pollinated plant.
  • More than one half of the sphingids presented pollen from only one or two species of plants.
  • In the new study, the researchers surveyed more than 2,000 proteins expressed on synergid cells to clinch the exact molecules luring pollen tubes to the embryo sac. Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
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