Pollen
noun
A very fine dust produced by flowers to create seeds.
The bee was covered in pollen after visiting the flowers.
Often appears as...
- being covered in pollen
- pollen count
noun
Tiny particles in air which can cause allergies.
His hay fever was triggered by the high pollen count.
Often appears as...
- high pollen count
- allergic to pollen
noun
A medicinal substance obtained from plants.
She took a spoonful of bee pollen to boost her health.
Often appears as...
- bee pollen
- pollen supplement
Usage tips
Medical
noun
A very fine dust produced by flowers to create seeds.
The bee was covered in pollen after visiting the flowers.
Often appears as...
- being covered in pollen
- pollen count
noun
Tiny particles in air which can cause allergies.
His hay fever was triggered by the high pollen count.
Often appears as...
- high pollen count
- allergic to pollen
noun
A medicinal substance obtained from plants.
She took a spoonful of bee pollen to boost her health.
Often appears as...
- bee pollen
- pollen supplement
Usage tips
Medical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Botanical Role
Pollen is crucial for plant reproduction and is carried by animals or the wind.
Flowers rely on bees to spread their pollen for fertilization.
Pro Tip 2/3Visibility
Pollen is often visible as a fine yellow powder covering the stamen of flowers.
You can see the bright yellow pollen on the center of the sunflower.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Term
Pollen levels are talked about especially during spring, when many plants bloom.
I love spring, but the pollen count is really high, which can be annoying.
Pro Tip 1/3Botanical Role
Pollen is crucial for plant reproduction and is carried by animals or the wind.
Flowers rely on bees to spread their pollen for fertilization.
Pro Tip 2/3Visibility
Pollen is often visible as a fine yellow powder covering the stamen of flowers.
You can see the bright yellow pollen on the center of the sunflower.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Term
Pollen levels are talked about especially during spring, when many plants bloom.
I love spring, but the pollen count is really high, which can be annoying.
Pro Tip 1/3Botanical Role
Pollen is crucial for plant reproduction and is carried by animals or the wind.
Flowers rely on bees to spread their pollen for fertilization.
Pro Tip 2/3Visibility
Pollen is often visible as a fine yellow powder covering the stamen of flowers.
You can see the bright yellow pollen on the center of the sunflower.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Term
Pollen levels are talked about especially during spring, when many plants bloom.
I love spring, but the pollen count is really high, which can be annoying.
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Noah Wilson-Rich: Every...
So one thing I want to encourage you to think about is the idea of what an urban island is. You think in the city maybe the temperature's warmer. Why are bees doing better in the city? This is a big question now to help us understand why they should be in the city. Perhaps there's more pollen in the city. With the trains coming in to urban hubs, they can
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The world’s largest...
Like the rest of us, sexual reproduction is how Pando came into the world in the first place all those tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago. The wind or a pollinator carried pollen from the flower of one of its parents to the other, where a sperm cell fertilized an egg. That flower produced fruit, which split open,
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Why are there so many...
To create apples with desirable characteristics, breeders first need to find parent apples that carry those characteristics. Once the parents have been selected, they have to wait until the trees bloom in the spring. The breeder takes the pollen from one bloom, called the father,
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Why do we itch? - Emma...
a chemical that makes our capillaries swell. This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response to this perceived threat. That explains the swelling, and it's the same reason pollen can make your eyes puff up.
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The role of fractals...
also find them in art for example the checks on pollen work has been recently revealed to be full of such similarities my relationship with fractals came in a natural way it's not that one day I woke up and I said Wow factors are so cool I
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What is dust made of? -...
Household dust also contains substances that blow in from the wider world. Depending on the local geology, finely ground quartz, coal, or volcanic ash might enter the air as atmospheric dust, along with pollen and fungal spores.
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What’s in the air you...
which contains a world of possibilities. This small slice of air is composed of numerous small particles including pollen, fungal spores, and liquid droplets, alongside trace gases like methane and carbon dioxide.
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Jonathan Drori: Every...
Like I said, pollen carries the male sex cells. If you actually didn't realize that plants have sex, they have rampant, promiscuous and really quite interesting and curious sex. Really. A lot.
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Girl's Rite of Passage PIPE...
the basket is filled with pollen and other ceremonial objects as their ancestors did the girls run toward the Rising Sun circling the basket four times to mark the four stages of life
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Sir David Attenborough...
and tuck in not only do they consume the pollen when that runs out they will eat the young bee larvae too around the world people are now
Video examples
Noah Wilson-Rich: Every...
So one thing I want to encourage you to think about is the idea of what an urban island is. You think in the city maybe the temperature's warmer. Why are bees doing better in the city? This is a big question now to help us understand why they should be in the city. Perhaps there's more pollen in the city. With the trains coming in to urban hubs, they can
Video examples
The world’s largest...
Like the rest of us, sexual reproduction is how Pando came into the world in the first place all those tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago. The wind or a pollinator carried pollen from the flower of one of its parents to the other, where a sperm cell fertilized an egg. That flower produced fruit, which split open,
Video examples
Why are there so many...
To create apples with desirable characteristics, breeders first need to find parent apples that carry those characteristics. Once the parents have been selected, they have to wait until the trees bloom in the spring. The breeder takes the pollen from one bloom, called the father,
Video examples
Why do we itch? - Emma...
a chemical that makes our capillaries swell. This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response to this perceived threat. That explains the swelling, and it's the same reason pollen can make your eyes puff up.
Video examples
The role of fractals...
also find them in art for example the checks on pollen work has been recently revealed to be full of such similarities my relationship with fractals came in a natural way it's not that one day I woke up and I said Wow factors are so cool I
Video examples
What is dust made of? -...
Household dust also contains substances that blow in from the wider world. Depending on the local geology, finely ground quartz, coal, or volcanic ash might enter the air as atmospheric dust, along with pollen and fungal spores.
Video examples
What’s in the air you...
which contains a world of possibilities. This small slice of air is composed of numerous small particles including pollen, fungal spores, and liquid droplets, alongside trace gases like methane and carbon dioxide.
Video examples
Jonathan Drori: Every...
Like I said, pollen carries the male sex cells. If you actually didn't realize that plants have sex, they have rampant, promiscuous and really quite interesting and curious sex. Really. A lot.
Video examples
Girl's Rite of Passage PIPE...
the basket is filled with pollen and other ceremonial objects as their ancestors did the girls run toward the Rising Sun circling the basket four times to mark the four stages of life
Video examples
Sir David Attenborough...
and tuck in not only do they consume the pollen when that runs out they will eat the young bee larvae too around the world people are now
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Hope Jahren
American Scientist
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
Ice cores, which are long cylinders scientists extract from glaciers, ice sheets or ice caps, contain gas bubbles, pollen, dust particles, or chemical isotopes that give scientists clues about what Earth's temperature and atmosphere were like when the ice caps first formed.
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Alain Ducasse
French Chef
My wife Gwenaelle prepares an 'energy shot' for me for breakfast. It's a mix of linseed, cereal, and raisins, with fresh fruit like kiwi. She also adds yogurt for added texture and some pollen and honey for an energy booster.
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Nina Fedoroff
American Scientist
We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.
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Mikhail Varshavski
American Celebrity
If they are going to be outside, make sure you wash your pets, because your pets will bring in a ton of pollen and they will roll around in your bed sheets, and now you're rolling around in pollen all night.
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Mikhail Varshavski
American Celebrity
Pollen counts are generally high early in the mornings 8 to 10 A.M. to noon. So stay away from being outdoors early in the mornings.
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Stephen Curry
American Athlete
I have allergies, and I've had my share of nosebleeds, but that's usually related to pollen.
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James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Quote examples
Hope Jahren
American Scientist
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.
Quote examples
Tatiana Schlossberg
Ice cores, which are long cylinders scientists extract from glaciers, ice sheets or ice caps, contain gas bubbles, pollen, dust particles, or chemical isotopes that give scientists clues about what Earth's temperature and atmosphere were like when the ice caps first formed.
Quote examples
Alain Ducasse
French Chef
My wife Gwenaelle prepares an 'energy shot' for me for breakfast. It's a mix of linseed, cereal, and raisins, with fresh fruit like kiwi. She also adds yogurt for added texture and some pollen and honey for an energy booster.
Quote examples
Nina Fedoroff
American Scientist
We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.
Quote examples
Mikhail Varshavski
American Celebrity
If they are going to be outside, make sure you wash your pets, because your pets will bring in a ton of pollen and they will roll around in your bed sheets, and now you're rolling around in pollen all night.
Quote examples
Mikhail Varshavski
American Celebrity
Pollen counts are generally high early in the mornings 8 to 10 A.M. to noon. So stay away from being outdoors early in the mornings.
Quote examples
Stephen Curry
American Athlete
I have allergies, and I've had my share of nosebleeds, but that's usually related to pollen.
Quote examples
James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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