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Pollinose :: Pollinose (a.) Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen..

Equipollency :: Equipollency (n.) Equality of power, force, signification, or application..

Fecundate :: Fecundate (v. t.) To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma..

Stamened :: Stamen (n.) The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

Entomophilous :: Entomophilous (a.) Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.

Pollinium :: Pollinium (n.) A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids..

Pollenin :: Pollenin (n.) A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.

Pollinate :: Pollinate (v. t.) To apply pollen to (a stigma).

Wind-fertilized :: Wind-fertilized (a.) Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.

Scopuliped :: Scopuliped (n.) Any species of bee which has on the hind legs a brush of hairs used for collecting pollen, as the hive bees and bumblebees..

Self-fertilized :: Self-fertilized (a.) Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.

Intine :: Intine (n.) A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen..

Pollen :: Pollen (n.) Fine bran or flour.

Autogamy :: Autogamy (n.) Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon..

Pollen :: Pollen (n.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament..

Mule :: Mule (n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.

Micropyle :: Micropyle (n.) An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule..

Self-fertilization :: Self-fertilization (n.) The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.

Caudicula :: Caudicula (n.) A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached..

Fovilla :: Fovilla (n.) One of the fine granules contained in the protoplasm of a pollen grain.

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