Definition of Pollen. Meaning of Pollen. Synonyms of Pollen

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Definition of Pollen

Pollen
Pollen Pol"len, n. [L. pollen fine flour, fine dust; cf. Gr. ?] 1. Fine bran or flour. [Obs.] --Bailey. 2. (Bot.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. Pollen mass, a pollinium. --Gray. Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. Pollen tube, 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.

Meaning of Pollen from wikipedia

- Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of ****ual reproduction. It consists of pollen grains (highly...
- A pollenizer (or polleniser), sometimes pollinizer (or polliniser, see spelling differences), is a plant that provides pollen. The word pollinator is...
- Bee pollen, also known as bee bread and ambrosia, is a ball or pellet of field-gathered flower pollen packed by worker honeybees, and used as the primary...
- the spores of fungi, ferns, bacteria, and the growth of the pollen tube from the pollen grain of a seed plant. Germination is usually the growth of a...
- A pollen tube is a tubular structure produced by the male gametophyte of seed plants when it germinates. Pollen tube elongation is an integral stage in...
- Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther of a plant to the stigma of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds. Pollinating...
- A pollen core is a core sample of a medium containing a stratigraphic sequence of pollen. Analysis of the type and frequency of the pollen in each layer...
- Oral allergy syndrome (OAS) or pollen-food allergy syndrome (PFAS) is a type of allergy classified by a cluster of allergic reactions in the mouth and...
- plants, which produce pollen. Female reproductive structures, such as pistils in flowering plants, produce ovules and receive pollen for fertilization. Mosses...
- Look up pollen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pollen is a powdery substance in plant reproduction. Pollen may also refer to: Arabella Rosalind Hungerford...