pollinize

American  

[pol-uh-nahyz] / ˈpɒl əˌnaɪz /

especially British, pollinise

verb (used with object)

pollinized, pollinizing

1. pollinate.

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Other Word Forms

• pollinization
  noun

Etymology

Origin of pollinize

1840–50; < New Latin pollin- (stem of pollen ) pollen + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

pollinize pollinized pollinizing

They do not pollinize themselves nor do they pollinize each other satisfactorily.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association

A quiet day should be chosen to pollinize the hazels for two reasons.

From Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Weschcke, Carl

The only one of fifteen varieties that I have fruited that can be depended on to pollinize itself; medium size, well sealed, cures well, no bitterness to pellicle, no "sticktite" nor moldy nuts.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association

STOKE: That first experiment of yours was trying to pollinize the black walnut with the Persian, but the reciprocal cross may be quite different, as Jones proved with the filberts.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association

I keep bees to help pollinize the blossoms.

From The Apple by Various

If one examines the nuts of the Ohio and finds them dwarfed or deformed, he may be sure that they have been pollinized by something other than a black walnut.

From Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Weschcke, Carl

Much to my surprise, not only my pollinized flowers but the whole tree bore a good crop of butternuts.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912 by Northern Nut Growers Association

In all of the pears we got no pears resulted when pollinized with the pollen of the same variety, except on those well fed trees.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923 by Northern Nut Growers Association

No other Persian walnuts grew in the locality and I assumed the matured nut must have been pollinized by a black walnut.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Since irregularities in size and shape indicate hybridity frequently and since heartnuts are easily hybridized I have assumed that these were pollinized by the mixture.

From Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Weschcke, Carl

The Comice pear blooms with the Bartlett, and would therefore presumably be of pollinizing benefit to the Bartlett if the latter should require such treatment.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)

We are now propagating two pollinizing varieties the catkins of which come out later than the Schafer.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Now the range of time for pollinizing is a thing of very great importance and we have to learn about it.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912 by Northern Nut Growers Association

It is assumed, of course, that self-sterile varieties have good pollinizing varieties near them; it is always well to plant two or more kinds near together.

From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)