Pollen

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The fine powderlike material consisting of pollen grains that is produced by the anthers of seed plants.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Collective term for pollen grains or microspores produced in the anthers of flowering plants.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Fine bran or flour.
  • n. The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant
  • Verb Form
    pollens   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    spore   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    flower    filament   
    Hyponym
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Guatemalan    Stalin    befallen    bollen    fallen    hollen    olen    pollan    stollen   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    spore    stamen    nectar    mildew    honey