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usually uncountable, plural pollens
A fine, granular substance produced in flowers. examples
(botany) Pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. quotations examples
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.
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
(obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour. [16th-century per OED] quotations
and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne, […] as well of pollen, as of other vitailes
1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles, translation of original by Jean Froissart
third-person singular simple present pollens, present participle pollening, simple past and past participle pollened
(transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen. examples