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Definition of Pollenate
1. Verb. Fertilize by transfering pollen.
Generic synonyms: Fecundate, Fertilise, Fertilize, Inseminate
Derivative terms: Cross-pollination, Pollenation, Pollen, Pollination, Pollinator
Definition of Pollenate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollenate
Literary usage of Pollenate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (southern California) Its Rivers and Its by George Wharton James (1906)
"... they artificially pollenate by binding the male flowers, with their abundance
of pollen, in the sheath where the female flowers are coming to maturity. ..."
2. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (southern California) Its Rivers and Its by George Wharton James (1906)
"... they artificially pollenate by binding the male flowers, with their abundance
of pollen, in the sheath where the female flowers are coming to maturity. ..."
3. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1909)
"Take any of those plants, pollenate each individual plant and you sow the seed,
and for every lot you get this ratio, three tails and one short. ..."
4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1913)
"He was, so far as history notes, the first person to cross pollenate the flower
of the apple for the purpose of creating new varieties through new ..."
5. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"But for all this elaborate mechanism, sweet peas, of all flowers, are the most
difficult to cross-pollenate, since they are so likely to receive some of ..."
6. Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin by Missouri botanical garden (1913)
"... to the bottom of the remarkably long nectary (spur) and at the same time to
pollenate this orchid, no authentic account of its existence can be found. ..."
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