pollen

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the fine powder produced by flowers that contains male reproductive cells

   Bees carried pollen from one flower to another.

2. 2
   noun

   fine powdery material, especially flour-like dust

   A yellow pollen settled on the windowsill after the storm.

3. 3
   verb

   to cover or dust with pollen

   The lilies pollened the tablecloth with orange grains.

Common collocations

• pollen tube Noun + noun

Learned borrowing from Latin pollen, "fine flour." Linnaeus used it in botany for the fine reproductive grains produced in flower anthers, preserving the older image of flour-like powder.

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