pollen

From Latin pollen (“fine flour”). Used by Linnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlən/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlən
• Hyphenation: pol‧len

Pollen grains on a flower.

pollen (usually uncountable, plural pollens)

1. A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.)
   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

2. (obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour. (16th-century usage documented by the OED.)
   • "...and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne,... as well of pollen, as of other vitailes..." Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bailey to this entry?)

• pollinate

pollen (third-person singular simple present pollens, present participle pollening, simple past and past participle pollened)

1. (transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen.

• palynologic
• palynological
• palynologist
• palynology

From Latin pollen.

pollen n (singular definite pollenet, plural indefinite pollen)

1. (botany) pollen

• “pollen” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /pɔlə(n)/
• Hyphenation: pol‧len
• Rhymes: -ɔlən

From Latin pollen.

pollen n (uncountable)

1. pollen

The common term in Dutch is stuifmeel. The term pollen is found in biology texts, but is furthermore in common use when identifying the causative agent of hay fever. In that sense, the word is sometimes mistakenly construed as being plural (“Tranende, jeukende ogen en een loopneus: pollen zijn geen pretje”, Metro, 29 February 2016; “Er hangen al pollen in de lucht: hooikoortsseizoen is begonnen”, Het Laatste Nieuws, 10 January 2018; “Pollen kunnen nu al voor hooikoorts zorgen”, De Telegraaf, 22 December 2018).

• stuifmeel

From English poll.

pollen

1. (computing) to poll, to periodically check the status of a device or variable.

pollen

1. Plural form of pol

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.lɛn/

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pollen m (plural pollens)

1. pollen

• palynologie
• palynologique
• palynologue
• pollinique
• polliniser
• pollinisateur

• “pollen” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

pollen (third-person singular simple present pollt, past tense pollte, past participle gepollt, auxiliary haben)

1. (computing) to poll, to periodically check the status of a device or variable.

• pollis

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”); compare with pulvis and Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “the finest meal”, “any fine dust”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpol.len/, [ˈpɔl.lɛn]

pollen n (genitive pollinis); third declension

1. (literally) flour, especially fine flour, milldust
2. (transferred sense) the (very) fine powder or dust of other things

   pollen piperis

   ground pepper [lit. powder of pepper]

   pollen tūris

   incense powder

   aliquid in pollen tundere

   to grind something into powder

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• (transferred sense: fine powder or dust): pulvis

• English: pollen
• French: pollen
• Portuguese: pólen
• Spanish: polen

• pollen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pollen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pollĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,195/1

From Latin pollen

pollen n (definite singular pollenet)

1. (botany) pollen

• pollinere
• pollinering

• “pollen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔlːn̩/

From Latin pollen

pollen n (definite singular pollenet)

1. (botany) pollen

• pollinere
• pollinering

pollen m

1. definite singular of poll

• “pollen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

pollen n (uncountable)

1. (botany) pollen