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Definition of pollinate in English: pollinateverb ˈpɒlɪneɪtˈpɑləˌneɪt [with object]Convey pollen to or deposit pollen on (a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant) and so allow fertilization. 给…传粉，给…授粉 there are not enough bees to pollinate their crops large tubular bird-pollinated flowers Example sentencesExamples - Every year, beekeepers send their best bees throughout the country to help pollinate crops, one farm at a time.
- Plants grown from teosinte seeds were pollinated with maize pollen.
- As the females search for egg sites, they pollinate the flowers with pollen carried from the fig where they were born.
- Like their fruitbat cousins, these bats may occasionally damage crops or gardens, but on the whole play a beneficial role in transporting seeds and in pollinating several species of plants.
- The stigmas were then pollinated with pollen from a flower whose anther had dehisced that day.
- Butterflies, flies and small bees pollinate flowers less frequently, and deposit smaller pollen loads, than large bees.
- Plants are already showing signs of bursting into bloom too early at a time when there are no insects around to pollinate their flowers.
- Bees are fooled into pollinating the bee orchid and the wispy, twisting petals of the rare lizard orchid closely resemble lizards.
- The pollinating fly Philoliche aethiopica is unable to distinguish between the two, thus pollinating the orchid without a nectar reward.
- This plant is pollinated by bees and can be both out- and in-breeding.
- There were no objections to their plans and in fact many of the allotment holders welcomed them, saying the bees would help to pollinate their crops.
- He doesn't use pesticides, or chemical fertilisers; he keeps a few bees to pollinate the flowers.
- Grasses, rushes, and sedges all produce flowers that must be pollinated for sexual reproduction to occur.
- When one of the small flowers is pollinated and fertilized, it goes to seed and snakes outward in a fuchsia-colored curlicue.
- By contrast, there are only about a thousand commercial beekeepers in the U.S., people who make a living harvesting and selling honey and wax and renting bees to farmers to pollinate their crops.
- Maize pollen was used as a control to pollinate wheat, using the method described previously by Inagaki.
- Hand pollinating the orchid has increased seed production, which allows for augmentation of existing populations and introduction of seed to start new populations.
- As well as pollinating the orchids, the bees are the chief pollinators of canopy trees.
- In other Magnolia species predominantly pollinated by beetles, pollen shortage or inefficient pollination has been reported.
- It then pollinates the seed, but the actual fertilization of the seed does not occur until the fall, usually after the seed has fallen off the tree and the fleshy seed coat has rotted away.
Synonyms cross-pollinate, cross-fertilize, make fruitful
OriginLate 19th century: from Latin pollen, pollin- 'pollen' + -ate3. Definition of pollinate in US English: pollinateverbˈpäləˌnātˈpɑləˌneɪt [with object]Convey pollen to or deposit pollen on (a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant) and so allow fertilization. 给…传粉，给…授粉 there are not enough bees to pollinate their crops large tubular bird-pollinated flowers Example sentencesExamples - Hand pollinating the orchid has increased seed production, which allows for augmentation of existing populations and introduction of seed to start new populations.
- It then pollinates the seed, but the actual fertilization of the seed does not occur until the fall, usually after the seed has fallen off the tree and the fleshy seed coat has rotted away.
- There were no objections to their plans and in fact many of the allotment holders welcomed them, saying the bees would help to pollinate their crops.
- Like their fruitbat cousins, these bats may occasionally damage crops or gardens, but on the whole play a beneficial role in transporting seeds and in pollinating several species of plants.
- Butterflies, flies and small bees pollinate flowers less frequently, and deposit smaller pollen loads, than large bees.
- Maize pollen was used as a control to pollinate wheat, using the method described previously by Inagaki.
- When one of the small flowers is pollinated and fertilized, it goes to seed and snakes outward in a fuchsia-colored curlicue.
- Grasses, rushes, and sedges all produce flowers that must be pollinated for sexual reproduction to occur.
- Plants are already showing signs of bursting into bloom too early at a time when there are no insects around to pollinate their flowers.
- In other Magnolia species predominantly pollinated by beetles, pollen shortage or inefficient pollination has been reported.
- This plant is pollinated by bees and can be both out- and in-breeding.
- He doesn't use pesticides, or chemical fertilisers; he keeps a few bees to pollinate the flowers.
- By contrast, there are only about a thousand commercial beekeepers in the U.S., people who make a living harvesting and selling honey and wax and renting bees to farmers to pollinate their crops.
- The stigmas were then pollinated with pollen from a flower whose anther had dehisced that day.
- As well as pollinating the orchids, the bees are the chief pollinators of canopy trees.
- The pollinating fly Philoliche aethiopica is unable to distinguish between the two, thus pollinating the orchid without a nectar reward.
- As the females search for egg sites, they pollinate the flowers with pollen carried from the fig where they were born.
- Every year, beekeepers send their best bees throughout the country to help pollinate crops, one farm at a time.
- Plants grown from teosinte seeds were pollinated with maize pollen.
- Bees are fooled into pollinating the bee orchid and the wispy, twisting petals of the rare lizard orchid closely resemble lizards.
Synonyms cross-pollinate, cross-fertilize, make fruitful
OriginLate 19th century: from Latin pollen, pollin- ‘pollen’ + -ate. |