About The Word Pollen
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Pollen
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What's The Definition Of Pollen?
[n] a fine powder produced by the anthers of seed-bearing plants; fine grains contain male gametes
Synonyms | Synonyms for Pollen: Related Terms | Find terms related to Pollen: androcyte | antheridium | antherozoid | male gamete | milt | protein | scum | seed | semen | seminal fluid | sperm | sperm cell | spermagonium | spermatic fluid | spermatid | spermatiophore | spermatium | spermatocyte | spermatogonium | spermatophore | spermatozoa | spermatozoid | spermatozoon See Also | powder | pulverisation | pulverization | ragweed pollen Pollen In Webster's Dictionary \Pol"len\, n. [L. pollen fine flour, fine dust; cf. Gr.
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1. Fine bran or flour. [Obs.] --Bailey.
2. (Bot.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of
flowers. See {Flower}, and Illust. of {Filament}.
{Pollen grain} (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen.
{Pollen mass}, a pollinium. --Gray.
{Pollen sac}, a compartment of an anther containing pollen,
-- usually there are four in each anther.
{Pollen tube}, a slender tube which issues from the pollen
grain on its contact with the stigma, which it penetrates,
thus conveying, it is supposed, the fecundating matter of
the grain to the ovule.
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