pollen

From Latin pollen (“fine flour”). Used by Linnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlən/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlən
• Hyphenation: pol‧len

Pollen grains on a flower.

pollen (usually uncountable, plural pollens)

1. A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
2. (botany) Pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. [from mid 18th century]
   • 2013 May–June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

3. (obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour. [16th-century per OED]
   • 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles‎, translation of original by Jean Froissart:

     and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne, […] as well of pollen, as of other vitailes

• pollinate

pollen (third-person singular simple present pollens, present participle pollening, simple past and past participle pollened)

1. (transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen.

• palyno-
• palynologic
• palynological
• palynologist
• palynology

From Latin pollen.

pollen n (singular definite pollenet, plural indefinite pollen)

1. (botany) pollen

• “pollen” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.lə(n)/
• Hyphenation: pol‧len
• Rhymes: -ɔlən

From Latin pollen.

pollen n (uncountable)

1. pollen

The common term in Dutch is stuifmeel. The term pollen is found in biology texts, but is furthermore in common use when identifying the causative agent of hay fever. In that sense, the word is often mistakenly construed as being plural (“Tranende, jeukende ogen en een loopneus: pollen zijn geen pretje”, Metro, 29 February 2016; “Er hangen al pollen in de lucht: hooikoortsseizoen is begonnen”, Het Laatste Nieuws, 10 January 2018; “Pollen kunnen nu al voor hooikoorts zorgen”, De Telegraaf, 22 December 2018).

• stuifmeel

From English poll.

pollen

1. (computing) to poll, to periodically check the status of a device or variable.

pollen

1. plural of pol

Learned borrowing from Latin pollen.

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pollen m (plural pollens)

1. pollen

• pollinique
• polliniser
  • pollinisateur

• palynologie
• palynologique
• palynologue

• “pollen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

pollen (weak, third-person singular present pollt, past tense pollte, past participle gepollt, auxiliary haben)

1. (computing) to poll, to periodically check the status of a device or variable.

• pollis

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”); compare with pulvis and Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “the finest meal”, “any fine dust”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpol.len/, [ˈpɔlːʲɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpol.len/, [ˈpɔlːen]

pollen n (genitive pollinis); third declension

1. (literally) flour, especially fine flour, milldust
2. (transferred sense) the (very) fine powder or dust of other things

   pollen piperis

   ground pepper [lit. powder of pepper]

   pollen tūris

   incense powder

   aliquid in pollen tundere

   to grind something into powder

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• (transferred sense: fine powder or dust): pulvis

• Italian: polline
• Neapolitan: ponila (Taranto), ponnula (Lecce)
• Sardinian: poddine, poddini
• → Catalan: pol·len
• → English: pollen
• → French: pollen
• → German: Pollen
• → Portuguese: pólen
• → Romanian: polen
• → Spanish: polen

• “pollen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pollen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pollĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,195/1.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pollen”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 131
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “pŏllen”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 497

From Latin pollen.

pollen n (definite singular pollenet)

1. (botany) pollen

• pollinere
• pollinering

• “pollen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔlːn̩/

From Latin pollen.

pollen n (definite singular pollenet)

1. (botany) pollen

• pollinere
• pollinering

pollen m

1. definite singular of poll

• “pollen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

pollen n (uncountable)

1. (botany) pollen

• pollenallergi (“pollen allergy”)
• pollenallergiker (“someone allergic to pollen”)

• pollinera

• pollen in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pollen in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pollen in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)