Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In entomology, covered (as if with pollen) with a loose or light powdery substance, often of a yellow color.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen.
Examples
“Onopordinis_, but proportionably more elongate and less convex; rostrum and thorax longer; pilosity of the body underneath much thinner and shorter; thighs thicker, more clavate, the anterior evidently costate-rugose underneath; without whitish marks on the elytra, and without that layer of light-brown earth-like pollinose transudation which is often wanting in rubbed specimens of _Larinus”
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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