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Producing pollen; polleniferous.

A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.

Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen.

A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle.

A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.

or or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate of alumina and cæsia. Called also pollux.

e; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement. The land was polluted with blood. Ps. cvi. 38 Wickedness . . . hath polluted the whole earth. 2 Esd. xv. 6.

Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- Pol*lut"ed*ly, adv. -- Pol*lut"ed*ness, n.

One who pollutes. Dryden.

Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution. -- Pol*lut"ing*ly, adv.

The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.

Same as Pollucite.

A woman's name; also, a popular name for a parrot.

A polliwig.

In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games.

vescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn.

, and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Apollo.

The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).