pollen

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See also: Pollen and pol·len

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin pollen (fine flour). Used by Linnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.

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Noun[edit]

Pollen grains on a flower.

pollen (usually uncountable, plural pollens)

  1. A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
  2. (botany) Pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. [from mid 18th century]
    • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
      In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
  3. (obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour. [16th-century per OED]

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Verb[edit]

pollen (third-person singular simple present pollens, present participle pollening, simple past and past participle pollened)

  1. (transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen.

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Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin pollen.

Noun[edit]

pollen n (singular definite pollenet, plural indefinite pollen)

  1. (botany) pollen

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Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin pollen.

Noun[edit]

pollen n (uncountable)

  1. pollen
Usage notes[edit]

The common term in Dutch is stuifmeel. The term pollen is found in biology texts, but is furthermore in common use when identifying the causative agent of hay fever. In that sense, the word is often mistakenly construed as being plural (“Tranende, jeukende ogen en een loopneus: pollen zijn geen pretje”, Metro, 29 February 2016; “Er hangen al pollen in de lucht: hooikoortsseizoen is begonnen”, Het Laatste Nieuws, 10 January 2018; “Pollen kunnen nu al voor hooikoorts zorgen”, De Telegraaf, 22 December 2018).

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Etymology 2[edit]

From English poll.

Verb[edit]

pollen

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

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

pollen

  1. plural of pol

French[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin pollen.

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Noun[edit]

pollen m (plural pollens)

  1. pollen

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German[edit]

Verb[edit]

pollen (weak, third-person singular present pollt, past tense pollte, past participle gepollt, auxiliary haben)

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

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Latin[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (flour, dust); compare with pulvis and Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, the finest meal”, “any fine dust).

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Noun[edit]

pollen n (genitive pollinis); third declension

  1. (literally) flour, especially fine flour, milldust
  2. (transferred sense) the (very) fine powder or dust of other things
    pollen piperis
    ground pepper [lit. powder of pepper]
    pollen tūris
    incense powder
    aliquid in pollen tundere
    to grind something into powder

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pollen pollina
Genitive pollinis pollinum
Dative pollinī pollinibus
Accusative pollen pollina
Ablative polline pollinibus
Vocative pollen pollina

Synonyms[edit]

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

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin pollen.

Noun[edit]

pollen n (definite singular pollenet)

  1. (botany) pollen

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin pollen.

Noun[edit]

pollen n (definite singular pollenet)

  1. (botany) pollen
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Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

pollen m

  1. definite singular of poll

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Swedish[edit]

Noun[edit]

pollen n (uncountable)

  1. (botany) pollen

Declension[edit]

Declension of pollen 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative pollen pollenet
Genitive pollens pollenets

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