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Definition of Pollinates
1. pollinate [v] - See also: pollinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollinates
Literary usage of Pollinates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"... as it desires and either devours them on the spot or returns with them to its
web. Xot less wonderful is the fly which pollinates the flowers of the ..."
2. California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children by Alice Merritt Davidson (1898)
"If an insect come from a plant with high anthers to one with high stigmas and
low anthers, it cross pollinates this flower, and pollen from the low anthers ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... particular insect may mean the extinction of the particular flower which it
pollinates. These mutual adaptations are very numerous among the orchids. ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"So it spends a long time under a single anther and visits but few in gathering
its load. While it is highly probable that the bee everts and pollinates the ..."
5. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1905)
"Experience no doubt will prove other varieties as valuable pollinates. But let
us not jump at conclusions because a rift in the cloud of ignorance discloses ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"The daisy really begins to pollinate in July and finishes in early September;
golden rod pollinates during August and September and ragweed usually begins ..."
7. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"... which, while doing this, pollinates the fertile flowers with pollen carried
from the male inflorescence (the ..."
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