pollen
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There’s a purpose to the stench: attracting flies and beetles to help carry pollen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
In addition to the heat many are also struggling with the high levels of pollen.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Rain usually helps wash pollen out of the air, but with dry weather expected to persist for several more days, concentrations can build steadily.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Scientists found that bumblebees collected up to seven times more heavy metals in their pollen, raising concerns about how hidden pollution could affect their health, survival, and ability to reproduce.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Like ragweed’s, sumpweed’s pollen can cause hayfever where the plant occurs in abundant stands.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
It is estimated that 13 million people in the UK suffer from hay fever - an allergy to different pollens.
From BBC ● May 30, 2025
“We’ve now got three different dating techniques—radiocarbon dating of the seeds, radiocarbon dating of the pollens and luminescence dating of the quartz—that all show people were there.”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023
The companies' services focus on diagnosis and treatment of environmental allergies such as pets, dust, pollens, and grasses.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2023
The sticky stuff captured mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant sloths and other iconic Ice Age mammals along with a near-perfect cross-section of the world they inhabited: birds, insects, plants, seeds, pollens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
These pollens were also applied to our best Chinese trees.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Vocabulary lists containing pollen
Life Science: Plants
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