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 C shows a blowup of a pollen grain, which is oval with two lobes and resembles Mickey Mouse.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Male gametes reach female gametophyte and the egg cell gamete though a pollen tube: an extension of a cell within the pollen grain.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The living substance of the pollen grain runs into the tip of this tube, and so is carried with it down through the style.
From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Margaret Warner Morley
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