pollen
SubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈpɒlən//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈpɑlən//
A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
Substantiv
- 1
A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
- 2
Pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants.
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
- 3
veraltetFine powder in general, fine flour.
and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne,[…]as well of pollen, as of other vitailes
The bran, pollen and gurgions of this grain will be profitable to the miller; […]
Herkunft
Learned borrowing from Latin pollen (“fine flour”), used by Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.
Verb
- 1
To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
Formen
- Plural
- pollens
- Präteritum
- pollened
- Partizip II
- pollened
- Partizip I
- pollening
- 3. Person Singular
- pollens
pollen · A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
polls · A place where votes are cast in elections.polluted · Made unclean or impure.pollution · Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of…