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Pollination   /pˌɑlənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Pollination

noun
1.
Transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant.  Synonym: pollenation.



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"Pollination" Quotes from Famous Books



... fear, that many modern mothers think that they have sexually educated their child when they tell him where babies come from. The physiological side of sex is the less important; you can take a child through all the usual stages—pollination of plants, fertilisation of eggs, right up to human birth, but the child will find no help in these informations when he faces his sex instinct at adolescence. Sex instruction should be psychological; it should deal with the sex instinct ...
— A Dominie in Doubt • A. S. Neill
... interesting ways of bringing about pollination. In the corn, willow, and pine the pollen is picked up by the wind and carried away. Much of it is lost, but some reaches the stigmas, or receptive parts, of other corn, willow, or pine flowers. This ...
— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett


Words linked to "Pollination" :   pollenation, fertilisation, fertilization, cross-pollination, fecundation, pollinate, self-pollination, impregnation


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