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ecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. -- Pollen tube, a slender tube which i…

Consisting of meal or pollen.

Covered with pollen. Tennyson.

Producing pollen; polliniferous.

A substance found in the pollen of certain plants. [R.]

To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.

Equality of power, force, signification, or application. Boyle.

Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon.

With equal power. Barrow.

The quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence. [R.] Coventry.

Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant. [R.] Boyle.

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind- Fertilized. Lubbock.

That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

wn, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.

A process of fecundation in which the pollen tube penetrates to the embryosac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle. It was originally discovered by Treub in Casuarina, and has since been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is fo…

al by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See Fertilization. -- Cross file, a double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheells. -- Cross fire (Mil.), lines of fire, from two or more points or places, crossing each other.…