pollen

Example Sentences

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Some are large enough to see, such as springtime pollen, while others, like viruses that circulate during flu season, are far too small for the human eye.

From Science Daily

The agriculture ministry warned heavy rainfall could wash away rice pollen and devastate production.

From Reuters

Corn relies on the wind to carry its pollen from tassel to silk.

From Seattle Times

The researchers introduced a similar electric field to bumble bees by rubbing the bees with pollen and watched C. elegans make the same jumps.

From Science Magazine

Most frogs are carnivores, but after finding plant matter in X. truncata's guts, researchers observed the frogs slurping nectar from milk fruit trees before hopping off covered in pollen.

From Scientific American