According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
pollen
(noun) the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pollen (usually uncountable, plural pollens)
A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.)
(obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour. (16th-century usage documented by the OED.)
pollen (third-person singular simple present pollens, present participle pollening, simple past and past participle pollened)
(transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
Source: Wiktionary
Pol"len, n. Etym: [L. pollen fine flour, fine dust; cf. Gr.
1. Fine bran or flour. [Obs.] Bailey.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 March 2025
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.