POLLEN
Dictionary entry overview: What does pollen mean? • POLLEN (noun)
The noun POLLEN has 1 sense:
1. the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant
Familiarity information: POLLEN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• POLLEN (noun)
Meaning:
The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("pollen" is a kind of...):
spore (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pollen"):
pollinium (a coherent mass of pollen grains (as in orchids))
ragweed pollen (pollen of the ragweed plant is a common allergen)
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