pollen grain

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noun

a single granule of pollen.

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Origin of pollen grain

First recorded in 1825–35

Scientists studied ancient pollen grains to show that a rainforest once grew in Antarctica.
Scientists Say: Pollen|Bethany Brookshire|May 24, 2021|Science News For Students
Spanish oak, which has an open grain and high levels of tannin, gives you dried fruit, spice, and even chocolate flavors.
How Much Do Whisky Casks Really Affect Taste?||December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Stalin, now one of the top men in the party, was sent there by Lenin to ensure that grain was getting shipped to Moscow.
Kotkin Biography Reveals Stalin's Evil Pragmatism|William O’Connor|November 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Feast your eyes on the ‘top-grain leather,’ ‘original’ design, gilded pages.
Rand Paul’s Many Leather-Bound Books|Olivia Nuzzi|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I am holding in my hand a book, bound in black “genuine top-grain” leather.
Rand Paul’s Many Leather-Bound Books|Olivia Nuzzi|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Against the Grain By Michael Specter, The New Yorker Should you go gluten-free?
The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Oct 27-Nov 2, 2014|William Boot|November 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The small grain crops had been burned to a crisp, and disaster hung over the land.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
The delicious soft rains set in early, promising a good grain year.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
It laid its hold upon agriculture, sowing and reaping the grain and transporting it to the ends of the earth.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock