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PRONUNCIATION OF POLLINIA

pollinia  [pəˈlɪnɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLLINIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pollinia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POLLINIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pollinium

Pollinium, or plural pollinia, is a coherent mass of pollen grains in a plant. They are the product of only one anther, but are transferred, during pollination, as a single unit. This is regularly seen in plants such as orchids and many species of milkweeds. Most orchids have waxy pollinia. These are connected to one or two elongate stipes, which in turn are attached to the sticky viscidium. Some orchid genera have mealy pollinia. These are tapering into a caudicle, attached to the viscidium. They extend into the middle section of the column. The combination of pollinia, caudicles, stipes and viscidium form the pollinarium. The waxy pollinia of a Phalaenopsis Pollinia of a Phalaenopsis orchid Pollinium of Ophrys apifera Male bee with pollinium attached to its head...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLLINIA


androclinia
ˌændrəˈklɪnɪə
bilinear
baɪˈlɪnɪə
collinear
kɒˈlɪnɪə
curvilinear
ˌkɜːvɪˈlɪnɪə
interlinear
ˌɪntəˈlɪnɪə
linear
ˈlɪnɪə
Lithuania
ˌlɪθjʊˈeɪnɪə
multilinear
ˌmʌltɪˈlɪnɪə
noncollinear
ˌnɒnkɒˈlɪnɪə
nonlinear
nɒnˈlɪnɪə
outlinear
ˌaʊtˈlɪnɪə
patrilinear
ˌpætrɪˈlɪnɪə
Pennsylvania
ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪnɪə
rectilinear
ˌrɛktɪˈlɪnɪə
Romania
rəʊˈmeɪnɪə
sublinear
sʌbˈlɪnɪə
triclinia
traɪˈklɪnɪə
trilinear
traɪˈlɪnɪə
unilinear
ˌjuːnɪˈlɪnɪə
Virginia
vəˈdʒɪnɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLLINIA

pollical
pollices
pollicitation
pollies
pollinate
pollination
pollinator
polling
polling booth
polling day
polling place
polling station
pollinic
polliniferous
polliniser
pollinium
pollinizer
pollinosis
polliwog

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLLINIA

Abyssinia
actinia
bauhinia
delphinia
equinia
garcinia
gloxinia
lacinia
neoteinia
photinia
postliminia
puschkinia
robinia
Sardinia
scotodinia
tridominia
uredinia
vaccinia
Via Flaminia
West Virginia

Synonyms and antonyms of pollinia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pollinia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLLINIA

Find out the translation of pollinia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pollinia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pollinia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

花粉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

polinias
570 millions of speakers

English

pollinia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pollinia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pollinia
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

поллинии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

polínias
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pollinia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pollinies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pollinia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pollinien
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

花粉
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pollinia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pollinia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phấn hoa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pollinia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परागकण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pollinia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

masse polliniche
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pylnikami
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поллініі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

polen
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γυρεομάγματος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pollinia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pollinia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pollinia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pollinia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLLINIA»

The term «pollinia» is normally little used and occupies the 146.841 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLLINIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pollinia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLLINIA»

Discover the use of pollinia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pollinia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pollen and Pollination
A different material, termed cohesion strands, was found to bind the loose pollinia of some Spiranthinae by Burns-Balogh (1982). In the Disinae, additional pollen cohesion is established by means of tectal bridges (Chesselet and Linder 1993).
Amots Dafni, Michael Hesse, Ettore Pacini, 2000
2
An Atlas of Orchid Pollination: European Orchids
This stamen is fused with the pistil. The anther may be split up into two pollinia, such that there seem to be two anthers. The pollinia are solid masses, or packages of pollen, which become glued as a whole to the insect because of its own ...
Nelis A. Van Der Cingel, 2001
3
Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family
The predominant theme in orchid evolution may be the union of the pollen grains into pollinia. In the Apostasioideae, the pollen is powdery and no more coherent than in other Liliiflorae. In most other orchids, the pollen is at least sticky, as in ...
Robert L. Dressler, 1993
4
Posthumous Papers Bequeathed to the Hon., the East India ...
2Э9 Pollinia, &c. 12. Eria flava, p. 301, Pollinia $c. 13. Oberonia anthropophora, p. 272, Pollinia. 14. Liparis luteola, p. 277, Pollinia of. 15. 16. Cirrhopctali, ар. 2, p . 295, Assam Herb. 183, Column Pollinia &c. 17. Cirrhopetali, sp. 2, p. 295 ...
William Griffith, 1851
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Understanding Orchids: An Uncomplicated Guide to Growing the ...
A receptive stigma is spongy and exudes quantities of sticky, viscous fluid designed to catch and hold pollinia. If you dab the stigmatic surface with a toothpick, fluid will adhere to the tip if it is ready to receive pollen. Pollinia typically ripen a bit ...
William Cullina, 2004
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The Edinburgh new philosophical journal
out of these four species, — self-fertilisation is impossible, — the pollinia must be removed from the flower and applied to the stigma of either the same or another flower. In by far the greater majority of the flowers, the pollinia, where these were  ...
‎1864
7
Physiology of Angiosperms
When the insect rushes into the flower to such honey the pollinia cannot help touching the stigma because the pollinia assume a direction which will coincide more or less, with the position of the stigma. In Habenaria we have anotiier very ...
Pooja, 2004
8
transactions of the botanical society
out of these four species, — self-fertilisation is impossible, — the pollinia must be removed from the flower and applied to the stigma of either the same or another flower. In by far the greater majority of the flowers, the pollinia, where these were  ...
‎1866
9
The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal ... Edinburgh, Constable ...
out of these four species,—self-fertilisation is impossiblethe pollinia must be removed from the flower and applied to the stigma of either the same or another flower. In by far the greater majority of the flowers, the pollinia, where these were  ...
‎1864
10
The Orchid Book: A Guide to the Identification of Cultivated ...
Dendrobium aduneum pollinia. Ena marginahs - pollinia. GROUP D Aerial growth persisting through the winter; leaves folded when young, or terete, or cylindric with a narrow groove; plant with distinct pseudobulbs or stems conspicuously ...
J. Cullen, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLLINIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pollinia is used in the context of the following news items.
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A crown in the flower
The pollinia now hitch a ride with the bee, which visits the next flower for its ... The pollinia then land on the stigma of another flower and the ... «The Hindu, Apr 15»
2
SLU Researchers Take Part in Missouri Botanical Garden Orchid …
... pollen sacs (pollinia) of spider orchids (Caladenia) as the lip petal of these flowers mimics the bodies of female wasps attracting male insects. «Saint Louis University, Jan 15»
3
Plants Are Actually Kind of Evil
However, while Mr.Bug was trying desperately to get it on, the orchid has attached a special pollen sac, called a pollinia, to the insect. When the poor guy finally ... «io9, Jul 14»
4
Researcher restores Florida's endangered cigar orchids
"This year we were able to collect pollinia from the individual and cross pollinate it in the hopes it will become a mother and produce a fruit that ... «Phys.Org, May 14»
5
The sexual battles of plants
Milkweeds reproduce by attaching sacs of pollen, called pollinia, to the bodies of insects and other animals that visit their flowers. When the ... «The Week Magazine, Mar 14»
6
Plants Develop Horn Like Structures To Ward Of Intrasexual …
Pollen is grouped into structures called pollinia or pollen sacs. When flower visiting insects or birds hover around the flower of the milkweed, ... «iScienceTimes.com, Mar 14»
7
Yucca: Plant of Many Uses
Those are called pollinia. It gathers them into a large ball. Then it flies to another plant. There she inserts her ovipositor in the seedpod, or ovary ... «SCVNEWS.com, Aug 13»
8
Recipe for a photograph #3: Pollinators in Flight
Note the yellow pollinia hanging from the bee's legs. In this post I explain how to take a lurid sex photograph. Or specifically, a lurid photograph ... «Scientific American, Jul 13»
9
Your nature almanac for July
The scent serves to attract insects whose feet will inadvertently pick up the flowers' sticky pollinia - small packets containing pollen – and ... «Peterborough Examiner, Jun 13»
10
Orchids in Southeast Alaska
The clumps are called pollinia. Although some other flowering plants (such as milkweeds) produce pollinia too, this habit is relatively unusual. «Juneau Empire, May 13»

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