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To apply pollen to (a stigma). -- Pol`li*na"tion, n. (Bot.)

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.

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

The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.

Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.

ll the Spermatophyta are heterosporous; fertilization of the egg cell is either through a pollen tube emitted by the microspore or (in a few gymnosperms) by spermatozoids. The phrase "flowering plants" is less distinctive than "seed plants," since the conifers, grasses, sedges, oaks, etc., do not produce flowers in the…

The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.

salt (Chem.), a salt of a sulphacid; a sulphosalt. -- Sulphur showers, showers of yellow pollen, resembling sulphur in appearance, often carried from pine forests by the wind to a great distance. -- Sulphur trioxide (Chem.), a white crystalline solid, SO3, obtained by oxidation of sulphur dioxide. It dissolves in wat…

A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.

y a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised. Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom. Bacon.

Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.