Pollen

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  • noun. The fine powderlike material whose individual grains contain the male reproductive cells of seed plants. Pollen is produced in the anther in angiosperms and in the male cone in gymnosperms.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A fine yellowish dust or powder produced in the anther of a flower (whence it is discharged when mature), which when magnified is found to consist of separate grains of definite size and shape; the male or fecundating element in flowering plants: the homologue of the microspore in cryptogams.
  • To cover or dust with pollen; supply with pollen. Tennyson, Voyage of maeldune.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Fine bran or flour.
  • noun. The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament.
  • noun. a particle or call of pollen.
  • noun. a pollinium.
  • noun. a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther.
  • noun. a slender tube which issues from the pollen grain on its contact with the stigma, which it penetrates, thus conveying, it is supposed, the fecundating matter of the grain to the ovule.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Collective term for pollen grains or microspores produced in the anthers of flowering plants.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant
    • Word Usage
    "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."
    cross-reference
    palynologic  palynological  palynologist  palynology  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    spore  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    pollinium  ragweed pollen  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Guatemalan  Stalin  befallen  bollen  fallen  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    honey  mildew  nectar  spore  stamen  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    androcyte  antheridium  antherozoid  male gamete  milt  
    variant
    filament  flower  
    verb-form
    pollens  
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