Crossword-Solution: POLLINATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pollinate | a. | Pollinose. |
| Pollinate | v. t. | To apply pollen to (a stigma). |
We have 9 clues for the answer “POLLINATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FERTILISE flowers | 1 answer |
| FERTILISE with | 1 answer |
| Fertilise by pollen | 1 answer |
| Fertilize, in a way | 1 answer |
| What bees do | 1 answer |
| fertilize with pollen | 1 answer |
| BEES DO IT | 12 answers |
| fertilize | 23 answers |
| Engender | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POLLINATE (5)
The applicability of the terms legitimate and illegitimate depends, on the one hand, upon the fact that insects which visit the different forms of flowers pollinate them in the manner suggested; the pollen of the short-styled flowers adhere to that part of the insect's body which touches the stigma of the long-styled flower and vice versa.
There are Bing, Royal Ann and Early Purple Guignes here with these, but they seldom, if ever, bloom with the Tartarian at the proper time to pollinate.
The anthers open in the flower-buds and pollinate the stigmas before the expansion of the flowers, thus assuring self-fertilization.
The several individuals may be left to pollinate [290] each other, or they may be artificially pollinated with their own pollen.
But if we pollinate the hybrid with pollen of a pure sugar-corn, we may predict the result as follows.
Quotes with POLLINATE (3)
I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesth…
In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to saving threatened species. Very often, their determination is all that stands between an endangered species and extinction. But why do they bother? Does it really matter if the Yangtze river dolphin, or the kakapo, or the northern white rhino, or any other species live on only in scientists' notebooks? Well, yes, it does. Every animal and plant is an integral pa…
One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about one act, then turned to me in horror: 'This is how you spend your days? Thinking about things like this?' I was ashamed. I could have been learning about string theory or how flowers pollinate themselves. I think his remark was the beginning of my crisis of faith. Like so many of my generation in graduate school, I had turned to literature as a kin…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1981).