Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, the supplying of pollen to the part of the female organ prepared to receive it, preliminary to fertilization. See pollen-tube.
  • noun The fertilization of plants by the agency of insects that carry pollen from one flower to another.

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  • noun botany the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.

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  • noun transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant

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Examples

  • Honeybee pollination is also needed to make alfalfa and clover which feeds beef and dairy cattle.

    Honeybees: have they emigrated to Mexico? 2008

  • Honeybee pollination is also needed to make alfalfa and clover which feeds beef and dairy cattle.

    Honeybees: have they emigrated to Mexico? 2008

  • So any kind of cross-pollination is likely to lead to new insights or technologies, and, potentially, revolutionary breakthroughs.

    MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research 2008

  • The various flower traits (and combinations thereof) that differentially attract one type of pollinator or another are known as pollination syndromes.

    Pollination Wikipedia 2009

  • Even if crops do currently require honeybee pollination, that is no reason to further exploit bees by consuming honey, beeswax, bee pollen, etc.

    Bee Crisis 2007

  • Cross-pollination occurs when pollen from one plant pollinates the flower of another plant in the same species that is genetically different.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • Insect-pollination occurs when insects carry the pollen to the female flower parts, as in Figure 6.4.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • The act of carrying pollen to the pistil is called pollination, and carrying pollen from the stamens of one flower to the pistil of another flower is called cross pollination.

    The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich

  • Plants in the family Rosaceae reproduce sexually through pollination, which is often assisted by insects.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Plants in the family Rosaceae reproduce sexually through pollination, which is often assisted by insects.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

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