Definition of Pollenating

1. pollenate [v] - See also: pollenate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollenating

pollen
pollen antigen
pollen count
pollen counter
pollen counters
pollen extract
pollen grain
pollen grains
pollen mother cell
pollen parent
pollen tube
pollenarious
pollenate
pollenated
pollenates
pollenating (current term)
pollenation
pollened
polleniferous
pollenin
pollening
pollenize
pollenized
pollenizer
pollenizers
pollenizes
pollenizing
pollenlike
pollenoses
pollenosis

Literary usage of Pollenating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"... Strawberry Blossom Ready /or pollenating Some varieties of strawberries bear perfect flowers as illustrated in this specimen, and others have blossoms ..."

2. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"... pollenating the Gourd Blossoms than to pluck a staminate flower, pulling away its corolla, To effect fertilization, nothing more is necessary to expose ..."

3. The Book of Useful Plants by Julia Ellen Rogers (1913)
"Now, the setting of seed depends upon the pollenating of the flowers. ... Some require cross-pollenating by wind or by insect assistance. ..."

4. New Creations in Plant Life: An Authoritative Account of the Life and Work by William Sumner Harwood (1907)
"He says there will be no question as to results, practical or scientific, if the person who does the pollenating knows his business: this being granted, ..."

5. Report by Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Board of Agriculture, State Board of Agriculture (1909)
"During the pollenating period, there is a great cloud of pollen working off, and it has been known to go even over a quarter of a mile. ..."

6. Mendelism by Reginald Crundall Punnett (1909)
"the risk of admixture of foreign pollen by selecting for pollenating purposes a flower which has not quite opened. If the standard is not erected, ..."

7. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"This habit of the white clover flowers saves the bees much time, since only those which need pollenating are lifted upward to receive their visits. ..."

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