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POLLINIUM (pollinia)
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Irregular inflected form: pollinia
Dictionary entry overview: What does pollinium mean?
• POLLINIUM (noun)
The noun POLLINIUM has 1 sense:
1. a coherent mass of pollen grains (as in orchids)
Familiarity information: POLLINIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A coherent mass of pollen grains (as in orchids)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("pollinium" is a kind of...):
pollen (the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant)
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