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Definition of Pollinia
1. pollinium [n] - See also: pollinium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollinia
Literary usage of Pollinia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Anther usually readily deciduous; pollinia not appendaged or with terminal ones, c.
... Lvs. not strap-shaped: pollinia unappendaged or with either ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Foot of an insect with pollinia fastened to It by the clip. ' nat. size ; the
other figures x 2-6. figs. 2691 and 2692). The hollow staminal appendages are ..."
3. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"pollinia of Fig. s1. pollinia of Orchis pyrami- Orchis ... A second movement now
takes place, which causes the divergent pollinia (fig. ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1864)
"In by far the greater majority of the flowers, the pollinia, where these were
... Sometimes I found the heads of pollinia sticking to the stigmas : this was ..."
5. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects by Charles Darwin (1889)
"Again, the little discs of membrane, the movement of which, as causing the movement
of the pollinia, is so absolutely indispensable for the fertilisation of ..."
6. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects by Charles Darwin (1877)
"Again, the little discs of membrane, the movement of which, as causing the movement
of the pollinia, is so absolutely indispensable for the fertilisation of ..."
7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"In by far the greater majority of the flowers, the pollinia, where these were
... Sometimes I found the heads of pollinia sticking to the stigmas : this was ..."
8. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects by Charles Darwin (1889)
"Again, the little discs of membrane, the movement of which, as causing the movement
of the pollinia, is so absolutely indispensable for the fertilisation of ..."
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