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Pollen

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pollinationnoun(botany) The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.
microsporenoun(botany) The smaller spore of a heterosporous plant, typically producing a male gametophyte.
saccateShaped like a pouch or sac.
grassnoun(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
stainabilitynounThe state or condition of being stainable.
trinucleateHaving three nuclei
polandnounA country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.
nonarborealNot arboreal.
polennoun
farinanounA particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
microgametophytesnounA male gametophyte.
sporesnounA surname.
microsporesnoun(botany) The smaller spore of a heterosporous plant, typically producing a male gametophyte.
pollinianounmasses of pollen grains
polliniumnoun(palynology) A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids, which is dispersed as a single unit during pollination.
bee-breadnounAlternative spelling of beebread. [Bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions, made and stored in brood cells by forager bees, and used as food for worker bees and larvae.]
gametophytesnoun(botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.
propagulesnoun(biology) A reproductive particle released by an organism in order to propagate itself, by means such as dispersal or infection, to the next stage in its life cycle. E.g., seeds, spores, endospores, microbial cysts, etc.
pollen grainnoun(botany) A single male reproductive particle of which the pollen of a plant consists.
pollen parentnoun(botany) The plant that contributes male reproductive material, the pollen.

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