pollinium

English

Pollinia of an orchid

Etymology

Etymology tree

English pollen

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Italic *-om

Latin -umder.

English -ium

English pollinium

From pollen + -ium (“mass”).

Noun

pollinium (plural pollinia)

1. (palynology) A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids, which is dispersed as a single unit during pollination.

Synonyms

• polyad (any group of more than four pollen grains)

Derived terms

• pollinial
• polliniate

Related terms

• pollinarium

Translations

coherent mass of pollen

• German: Pollinium n
• Korean: 화분괴 (hwabun'goe)
• Polish: pyłkowina f
• Spanish: polinio m

See also

• pollinium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “pollinium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔlˈlɪ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [polˈliː.ni.um]

Noun

pollinium n (genitive polliniī or pollinī); second declension

1. (New Latin) pollinium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pollinium	pollinia
genitive	polliniī pollinī1	polliniōrum
dative	polliniō	polliniīs
accusative	pollinium	pollinia
ablative	polliniō	polliniīs
vocative	pollinium	pollinia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).