POLLENED

Etymology

Verb

pollened

simple past tense and past participle of pollen

Adjective

pollened (comparative more pollened, superlative most pollened)

Covered with pollen.

Source: Wiktionary

Pol"lened, a.

Definition: Covered with pollen. Tennyson.

POLLEN

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