pollination

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pollinate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈpɑl·əˌneɪt/
biology
to carry pollen from a male part of a flower to the female part of another flower of the same type

pollination

noun[ U ]us/ˌpɑl·əˈneɪ·ʃən/

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In the diurnal cross-pollination treatment, buds were emasculated before anthesis and rebagged and pollinated at 06h00- 06h30 the following morning.
Her research cross-pollinates the histories of architecture and technology with a particular focus on the post-war neoavant-gardes.
Protracted pre-emergence and emergence periods are undesirable when pollinating short-blooming crops such as fruit trees.
Each day flowers were hand pollinated by legitimate crosspollination, and the number of flowers pollinated and those forming seeds were recorded.
Newly opened flowers were hand pollinated daily by legitimate cross-pollination using pollen from flowers on racemes cultured at the same temperature as the receiving flowers.
Flowers are typically white, hermaphrodite, self-incompatible and insect pollinated.
Furthermore, a palm species does not have to exhibit floral characteristics of a cantharophilous pollination syndrome to be pollinated by beetles.
Male euglossine bees collect fragrances produced by flowers for reasons not yet clearly understood, pollinating them during this process.
Inflorescences potentially pollinated by nitidulids comprised 25% of the fruit crop in the year of our study.
Bagging all non-treated flowers should have minimized this possible confounding f actor because t hese flowers are non-autogamous and were not pollinated at all.
Flowering is protracted, lasting from mid-spring until the end of summer, and the species is insect pollinated.
All of the biotically pollinated dioecious species were considered to be insect pollinated.
At a finer scale, among genera pollinating monoecious figs we found marked differences in flight behaviour (height and time-of-dispersal).
604 from plants found > 50 m away from pollinated plants and applied with a brush.
Newly opened flowers were pollinated, and flowers and seeds were counted three to four times each week on five tagged racemes of each plant.
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