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POLLINATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pollinate mean?
• POLLINATE (verb)
The verb POLLINATE has 1 sense:
1. fertilize by transfering pollen
Familiarity information: POLLINATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it pollinates Past simple: pollinated
Past participle: pollinated
-ing form: pollinating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fertilize by transfering pollen
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
cross-pollinate; pollenate; pollinate
Hypernyms (to "pollinate" is one way to...):
fecundate; fertilise; fertilize; inseminate (introduce semen into (a female))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
pollen (the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant)
pollination (transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant)
pollinator (an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another)
Context examples
By measuring the flowers with an infrared camera, they found that the east-facing sunflowers heated up more quickly in the morning — and also attracted five times as many pollinating insects.
(Sunflowers move from east to west, and back, by the clock, NSF)
The annual survey, which has been conducted for 11 years, aims to find why bee colonies are suffering, a problem that can have big consequences for human beings, given that honey bees pollinate $15 billion worth of U.S. agriculture annually.
(Study Finds Mixed News About Bee Populations, VOA)
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