pollinate
verb (used with object)
to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
pollinates
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present tense formof pollinate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In some plant insect relationships, the insect both pollinates the plant and uses the fruit as a place for its offspring to grow.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
The tequila bat feeds on the flowers of the agave—a kind of succulent—and pollinates them.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
It self pollinates as it has both male and female flowers and the opening and closing of doors in the palm house is enough passage of air for this to happen.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2021
They have devoted a plot to 90 experimental varieties bred by Cliff Ambers, an iconoclastic viticulturist who pollinates native grape vines with pollen from European vinifera varieties.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2019
These cases where it is said that the black walnut pollinates the Persian regularly and is producing good crops of nuts, I would consider doubtful until I see the seedlings, their growth and characteristics.
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
