What is "pollinate"

Usage examples of "pollinate".

It signified a colossal ego, a man who might easily have given himself an anther and pollinated amaryllises and neighbor ladies, a man who judged the rightness of his behavior only by his own standards, if he bothered to so judge at all.

Plenty of amaryllises, and I can pollinate them there as well as anywhere.

Like the Alices, like the head house, like the amaryllises Jack had pollinated, these flowers had human genes.

South of the Via Valeria the country was solid vineyard, a vast expanse of grapes grown inside small high-walled enclosures to protect them from the bitter winds which swept off the mountains at just that time of year when the tender grape florets were forming and the insects needed calm air to pollinate.

In 1970 pesticides killed off so many bees in Oregon and Washington that two billion of them had to be imported to pollinate the fruit trees.

Yet I have seen them pollinated, by another insect whose primary role in the ecosystem is feeding on carrion.

Dokken had also introduced a community of fishes that fed on the hyacinths, insects that pollinated the flowers, and cliff swallows that ate the insects.

They passed white rectangular boxes that buzzed with bees flitting in and out of their hives as they dutifully pollinated the flowers.

It blooms in early spring, is pollinated by bees, and forms beanlike pods.

All these humans had seen of their homeworld was food crops, a few pollinating insects and rats.

I stared intently and suspiciously at a small shape flying near these, thinking about bats, until Dracula assured me it was only a night-feeding hawk moth, by which these flowers were mostly pollinated.

One generation of adults pollinates the female flowers of the next, and the pistils of the flowers serve as pupae carrying already-gravid female flies.

Its flower blooms precisely at dawn, pollinates at midday, and sinks into the mud at sunset, where it leaves precisely five pods.

The rivergrass pollinates, but it doesn't bear seed, and when they tried to transplant it, it lived for a while and then died, and didn't grow back the next year.

Nor did he seem capable of pollinating Petra Cross, or Muffy, or any other woman.