Pollen

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pollen \Pol"len\, n. [L. pollen fine flour, fine dust; cf. Gr.
     ?]
     1. Fine bran or flour. [Obs.] --Bailey.
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     2. (Bot.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of


        flowers. See {Flower}, and Illust. of {Filament}.
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     {Pollen grain} (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen.
  
     {Pollen mass}, a pollinium. --Gray.
  
     {Pollen sac}, a compartment of an anther containing pollen,
        -- usually there are four in each anther.
  
     {Pollen tube}, a slender tube which issues from the pollen
        grain on its contact with the stigma, which it penetrates,
        thus conveying, it is supposed, the fecundating matter of
        the grain to the ovule.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pollen
       n : the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne
           by an anther in a flowering plant

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "pollen":
     androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, male gamete, milt, protein,
     scum, seed, semen, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cell, spermagonium,
     spermatic fluid, spermatid, spermatiophore, spermatium,
     spermatocyte, spermatogonium, spermatophore, spermatozoa,
     spermatozoid, spermatozoon