Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, fertilized with pollen borne by the wind, as flowers; anemophilous, as conifers, grasses, sedges, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
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Examples
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In the majority of the group, however, the flowers are wind-fertilized.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Such tricks are not uncommon in bee-fertilized flowers, because they insure the pollen being shed only when a bee thrusts his head into the blossom; but what use can this device be to the wind-fertilized nettle?
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Like many other wind-fertilized flowers, the stamens and pistils are collected on different plants -- a plan which absolutely insures cross-fertilization, without the aid of the insects.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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That is because the nettle is wind-fertilized, and so does not need bright and attractive petals.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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There is no special preponderance of self-fertilized or wind-fertilized plants, but everywhere the demand for and evidence of insect life.
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There is no special preponderance of self-fertilized or wind-fertilized plants, but everywhere the demand for and evidence of insect life.
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There is no special preponderance of self-fertilized or wind-fertilized plants, but everywhere the demand for and evidence of insect life.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901
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(nectar) in certain parts of the flower, while the wind-fertilized flowers are destitute of this as well as of odor.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The amount of pollen given off by some wind-fertilized trees -- so great in some places that it covers hundreds of square miles of earth and water with a film of yellow dust --- strikes us as an amazing waste of material on the part of nature; but in these cases we readily see that this excessive prodigality is necessary to continue the species, and that a sufficient number of flowers would not be impregnated unless the entire trees were bathed for days in the fertilizing cloud, in which only one out of many millions of floating particles can ever hit the mark.
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