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pollination
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred to the female reproductive organs of a plant, thereby enabling fertilization to take place. Like all living organisms, seed plants have a single major goal: to pass their genetic information on to ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pollinate \Pol"li*nate\, v. t. (Bot.) To apply pollen to (a stigma). -- Pol`li*na"tion , n. (Bot.)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant [syn: pollenation ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, from older French pollination , noun of action formed 1812 from pollin- , stem of Latin pollen (see pollen ). Replaced in Modern French by pollinisation .
Usage examples of pollination.
Such was the pollination that must have been wrought by the army of bees that crops and flowers would grow the following spring in an abundance never known before.
He is smiling expansively, entranced by the mobile plants which cluster around us, fronds upraised to savour our carbon dioxide, calyces begging our hands for pollination.
John, the doyerme of Khami Mission, had dutifully thanked the Almighty for His bounty but was going on, in conversational tones, to point out to Him that a little rain soon would help pollination of the immature cobs in the field and ensure a continuation of that bounty.
According to Stebbins, the development of pollination mechanisms in milkweeds and orchids is an example of minor advances in grade, while the appearance of the digestive tube, central nervous system, elaborate sense organs, vertebrate limbs, and elaborate social behavior represent major advances.
A warm, windless evening is chosen for pollination so the pollen tube has time to grow before sunrise.
On New Yugoslavia, there were no insects, except for one strain of Australian stingless bee that was needed for pollination.