POLLENATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pollenation mean? 

• POLLENATION (noun)
  The noun POLLENATION has 1 sense:

1. transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant

  Familiarity information: POLLENATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLLENATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

pollenation; pollination

Hypernyms ("pollenation" is a kind of...):

fecundation; fertilisation; fertilization; impregnation (creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pollenation"):

cross-pollination (fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another)

self-pollination (fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers to the stigma of the same flower)

Derivation:

pollenate (fertilize by transfering pollen)