pollen

See also Pollen, and pol·len

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin pollen (“fine flour”), used by Linnaeus to describe the substance produced in flowers.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɒlən/, X-SAMPA: /"pQl@n/
• (US) IPA: /ˈpɑlən/, X-SAMPA: /"pAl@n/
• Rhymes: -ɒlən

Noun

Pollen grains on a flower.

pollen (usually uncountable; plural pollens)

1. A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Collective term for pollen grains or microspores produced in the anthers of flowering plants.

Derived terms

• pollen analysis
• pollenarious
• pollen basket
• pollen count
• pollen counter
• pollen grain
• polleniferous
• pollenize, pollenise
• pollenlike
• pollen mother cell
• pollen parent
• pollen sac
• pollen tube
• polleny

Translations

fine granular substance produced in flowers

Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can: Arabic: حبوب اللقاح (ar) (Hunuub al-liqaa3) pl. Armenian: ծաղկափոշի (hy) (çaġkap'oši) Basque: lore-hauts (eu), polen (eu) Catalan: pol·len (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 花粉 (cmn) (huāfěn) Min Nan: 花粉 (nan) (hoe-hún) Czech: pyl (cs) m. Dutch: stuifmeel (nl) n., pollen (nl) pl. Esperanto: poleno (eo) Finnish: siitepöly (fi) French: pollen (fr) m. German: Blütenstaub (de) m., Pollen (de) m. Greek: γύρη (el) f. Hungarian: pollen (hu), virágpor (hu)

Icelandic: frjókorn (is) n. Italian: polline (it) m. Japanese: 花粉 (ja) (かふん, kafun) Korean: 꽃가루 (ko) (kkot-garu) Latin: pollen (la) n. Polish: pyłek (pl) m. Portuguese: pólen (pt) m. Romanian: polen (ro) n. Russian: пыльца (ru) (pyl'cá) f., цветень (ru) (cvéten') m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̀лен (sh) m., пѐлуд (sh) m. Roman: pòlen (sh) m., pèlud (sh) m. Slovene: cvetni prah (sl) m. Spanish: polen (es) m. Telugu: పరాగరేణువు (te)

See also

• palynologic
• palynological
• palynologist
• palynology

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɔlə(n)/

Etymology 1

From Latin pollen.

Noun

pollen n. (uncountable)

1. pollen

Etymology 2

From English poll.

Verb

pollen (weak in -d)

1. (computing) to poll, to periodically check the status of a device or variable.

Conjugation

Conjugation of pollen (weak in -d)

infinitive	pollen
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	poll	pollde
2nd person singular	pollt	pollde
3rd person singular	pollt	pollde
plural	pollen	pollden
subjunctive sing.1	polle	pollde
subjunctive plur.1	pollen	pollden
imperative sing.	poll
imperative plur.1	pollt
participles	pollend	(hebben) gepolld
1) Archaic.

Etymology 3

Noun

pollen

1. Plural form of pol.

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French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

pollen m. (plural pollens)

1. pollen

See also

• palynologie
• palynologique
• palynologue
• pollinique
• polliniser
• pollinisateur

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German

Verb

pollen 

1. (computing) to poll, to periodically check the status of a device or variable.