pollinate
Speech parts
1. pollinate - Adjective
2. pollinate - Verb
Meaning
Pollinose.
To apply pollen to (a stigma).
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Antonyms
Show all antonymsHypernyms
Examples
But by the time silks began growing out of its small ear, there simply wasn’t any other pollen in the vicinity to pollinate the plant.”
Despite COVID-19 restrictions and border closures, for instance, beekeepers from NSW and Queensland helped to successfully pollinate Victoria’s share of the national almond crop, which is worth almost $1 billion annually.
“A bee, in its lifetime, can only produce about half a teaspoon of honey each year and their working lives are only about six weeks during the summer, and they pollinate those flowers each day.”
Foragers coming in loaded with pollen on the hive landing board Pollination main Species of Apis are generalist floral visitors, and pollinate a large variety of plants, but by no means all plants.
In flowers, the purple anthocyanins help attract insects who pollinate the flowers.
Other varieties can self pollinate, but they produce a greater and more reliable yield when pollinated by male kiwifruit vines.