pollination

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

Pollination by a bee

pollination (plural pollinations)

1. (botany) the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.

Derived terms

• cross-pollination
• self pollination

Translations

transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma

• Bengali: পরাগমিলন (poragmilon)
• Catalan: pol·linització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 授粉 (zh) (shòufěn), 授精 (zh) (shòujīng)

• French: pollinisation (fr) f
• German: Bestäubung f
• Irish: pailniú m
• Italian: impollinazione (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 授精 (じゅせい, jusei), 受粉 (ja) (じゅふん, jufun)
• Malay: pendebungaan
• Portuguese: polinização f
• Romanian: polenizare (ro) f, polenizație (ro) f
• Russian: опыле́ние (ru) n (opylénije)
• Spanish: polinización (es) f
• Swedish: pollinering (sv) c, pollination (sv) c
• Telugu: పరాగసంపర్కము (te) (parāgasamparkamu)