| NOUN | plant | pollen | the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant |
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| Sounds | paa'lahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant. | |
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| Narrower | pollinium | A coherent mass of pollen grains (as in orchids) |
| ragweed pollen | pollen of the ragweed plant is a common allergen | |
| Broader | spore | A small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion |
| Spanish | polen | |
| Catalan | pol·len | |
| Verbs | pollinate | fertilize by transfering pollen |
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