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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