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pollinate

[ US /ˈpɑɫəˌneɪt/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒlɪnˌe‍ɪt/ ]
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  1. fertilize by transfering pollen

How To Use pollinate In A Sentence

  • Preserve seed that hasn't been cross-pollinated.
  • To overcome dichogamy it is necessary to have varieties which pollinate one another. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
  • The farther pollen rides the artificial gusts, the more likely it belongs to a wind-pollinated plant.
  • As a rule, beans pollinate themselves so you don't have to worry about unwanted hybrids, courtesy of an earnest bee. Groundwork: Beans, cute and dried
  • By contrast, there are only about a thousand commercial beekeepers in the U.S., people who make a living harvesting and selling honey and wax and renting bees to farmers to pollinate their crops.
  • Pumpkin breeding is done by hand, with breeders using pollen from one variety to pollinate another, he said. Pumpkin Farmers Profit From Odd, Ugly Varieties
  • Unpollinated ovaries were prepared by bagging the female flowers before anthesis.
  • Darwin figured that unless the plant was self-pollinated, which is rare, it had to be pollinated either by the wind or by an animal. Entomologists unite behind evolutionary theory - The Panda's Thumb
  • In this study, the extent of reduction in seed production due to insufficient pollen quantity and quality were examined in a naturally pollinated M. stellata population.
  • It is a wind-pollinated species, with hermaphroditic protandrous flowers (the first two days as male and three last days as female).
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