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Definition of Cross-pollinating
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of cross-pollination.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross-pollinating
Literary usage of Cross-pollinating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Studies in Botany by John Merle Coulter (1913)
"A few examples will be given, to suggest the kinds of arrangements to be looked
for, but the student should examine as many cross-pollinating flowers as ..."
2. Productive Plant Husbandry: A Text-book for High Schools, Including Plant by Kary Cadmus Davis (1917)
"Other conditions or structures may make cross-pollinating necessary (Fig. 9).
... Cross-Pollinating.—Any plan or structure which requires that the pollen be ..."
3. A Text-book of Botany for Secondary Schools by John Merle Coulter (1906)
"cross-pollinating flowers may be illustrated under three heads, distinguished
from one another by their methods of hindering self-pollination; ..."
4. A Text-book of Botany for Secondary Schools by John Merle Coulter (1910)
"cross-pollinating flowers may be illustrated under three heads, distinguished
from one another by their methods of hindering self-pollination; ..."
5. Plant-breeding: Being Six Lectures Upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1912)
"The operation or practice of cross-pollinating. Cross-pollination. — The conveyance
of pollen to the stigma of another flower. ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Crossing is the operation of cross-pollinating. Cross-pollination is the transfer
of the pollen of one flower to the pistil of another. ..."
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