pollen

See also: Pollen and pol·len

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pollen (“fine flour”). (Used by Linnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.)

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlən/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlən/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɒlən

Noun

Pollen grains on a flower.

pollen (usually uncountable, plural pollens)

1. Fine powder in general, fine flour (16th century usage documented by OED; no longer common.)
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2. A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.)
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Related terms

• pollinate

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
• pollination

Translations

fine granular substance produced in flowers

• Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can:
• Arabic: حُبُوب اللِقَاح m pl (ḥubūb al-liqāḥ)
• Armenian: ծաղկափոշի (hy) (caġkapʻoši)
• Asturian: polen m
• Basque: lore-hauts (eu), polen (eu)
• Catalan: pol·len m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花粉 (zh) (huāfěn)

  Min Nan: 花粉 (zh-min-nan) (hoe-hún)

• Czech: pyl (cs) m
• Dutch: stuifmeel (nl) n, pollen (nl) pl
• Esperanto: poleno
• Finnish: siitepöly (fi)
• French: pollen (fr) m
• Galician: pole m
• Georgian: მტვერი (mṭveri)
• German: Blütenstaub (de) m, Pollen (de) m
• Greek: γύρη (el) f (gýri)
• Hungarian: pollen (hu), virágpor (hu)
• Icelandic: frjókorn (is) n
• Ido: poleno (io)
• Irish: pailin f
• Italian: polline m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 花粉 (ja) (かふん, kafun)
• Korean: 꽃가루 (ko) (kkot-garu)
• Latin: pollen n
• Latvian: ziedputekšņi m pl, putekšņi m pl
• Malay: debunga
• Maori: hae
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pollen n

  Nynorsk: pollen n

• Polish: pyłek (pl) m
• Portuguese: pólen (pt) m
• Romanian: polen (ro) n
• Russian: пыльца́ (ru) f (pylʹcá), цве́тень (ru) m (cvétenʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀лен m, пѐлуд m

  Roman: pòlen (sh) m, pèlud (sh) m

• Slovene: cvetni prah (sl) m
• Spanish: polen (es) m
• Swedish: pollen (sv) n
• Tagalog: mawo
• Telugu: పరాగరేణువు (te) (parāgarēṇuvu)
• Turkish: çiçek tozu (tr), polen (tr)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can

See also

• palynologic
• palynological
• palynologist
• palynology

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /pɔlə(n)/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: pol‧len

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pollen.

Noun

pollen n (uncountable)

1. pollen

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English poll.

Verb

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of pollen (weak)
infinitive	pollen
past singular	pollde
past participle	gepolld
infinitive	pollen
gerund	pollen n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	poll	pollde
2nd person sing. (jij)	pollt, poll2	pollde
2nd person sing. (u)	pollt	pollde
2nd person sing. (gij)	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	gepolld
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

Etymology 3

Noun

pollen

1. (deprecated template usage) Plural form of pol

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

pollen m (plural pollens)

1. pollen

See also

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

External links

• “pollen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Verb

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

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Latin

Alternative forms

• pollis

Etymology

Compare with pulvis and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “the finest meal”, “any fine dust”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

1. (literally) flour, fine flour, milldust
2. (transferred sense) (very) fine powder dust

   pollen piperis

   ground pepper [lit. powder of pepper]

   pollen tūris

   incense powder

   aliquid in pollinem tundere

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Synonyms

• (transferred sense: fine powder or dust): pulvis

Derived terms

• polenta
• pollināris (Classical)
• pollinārium (New Latin)
• pollinārius (Classical)
• pollinātus (Classical)
• pollinicus (post-Classical)

• pollinium (New Latin)
• pollinivorus (New Latin)
• pollinōdium (New Latin)
• pollinoīdēs (New Latin)
• pollinōsus (New Latin)

References

• “pollen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pollĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,195/1.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pollen

Noun

pollen n (definite singular pollenet)

1. (botany) pollen

Related terms

• pollinere
• pollinering

References

• “pollen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pollen

Noun

pollen n (definite singular pollenet)

1. (botany) pollen

Related terms

• pollinere
• pollinering

References

• “pollen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.