pollened
simple past tense and past participle of pollen
pollened (comparative more pollened, superlative most pollened)
Covered with pollen.
Source: Wiktionary
Pol"lened, a.
Definition: Covered with pollen. Tennyson.
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
12 November 2024
(noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.