What is "pollinating"

Usage examples of "pollinating".

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

But that was all Jack had been, really, even when he was pollinating Petra Cross.

As a result, most crops belong to the small percentage of wild plants that either arc hermaphrodites usually pollinating themselves or else reproduce without sex by propagating vegetatively (for example, by a root that genetically duplicates the parent plant).