pollen grain
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pollen grain
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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In the process of plant reproduction, when a pollen grain that transports male gametes lands on the stigma of another flower, it initiates the formation of a pollen tube.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
Normally, a pollen grain that sticks to the stigma of a flower during pollination germinates into a long tube that grows straight and unbranched through the ovary to the ovules, where fertilisation takes place.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
Micrograph shows a pollen grain, which looks like puffed wheat.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The pollen grain undergoes mitosis, producing a generative cell and a tube cell.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Alighting on a new flower the insect rubs a pollen grain on a stigma ready to receive it, and lo! the rites of matrimony are solemnized then and there.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by George Iles
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