pollen

Example Sentences

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Honeybees rely on pollen as their main food source.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

It was hard to keep the pollen out of the porch, and even harder to keep people in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

The pollen forecast will be available on the BBC Weather app from Thursday 19 March.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Earlier studies on Rapa Nui relied on indicators such as pollen, plant remains, elemental chemistry, and how quickly sediments built up to infer past environmental changes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026

The wind, it seems, isn’t discriminatory in which kind of plant pollen it blows.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson