Meaning | fertilize by transfering pollen. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Synonyms | pollenate, cross-pollinate |
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Broader | inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise | introduce semen into (a female) |
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Spanish | fertilizar, polinizar |
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Catalan | pol·linitzar |
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Nouns | pollen | the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant |
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pollination | transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant |
pollinator | an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another |