pollination
noun
the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma.
pollinations
-
pluralof pollination.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Annually Boerner makes 10,000 hand pollinations, getting up to ten tiny seeds from each crossing.
From Time Magazine Archive
To prevent bees from messing up the experiments with promiscuous pollinations, it was found necessary to clip the petals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Considerable effort has been expended in the prosecution of this project, but up to the present time we have recorded no successful pollinations.
Without going into details, the general purpose of the pollinations during these last two years has been to incorporate more and more of the resistant Chinese stock into our hybrids.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
If conveniences are at hand the work may be rapidly accomplished—several hundred pollinations being made in a single day by an active worker.
From The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus by Matthew Crawford
