RAGWEED POLLEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ragweed pollen mean? 

• RAGWEED POLLEN (noun)
  The noun RAGWEED POLLEN has 1 sense:

1. pollen of the ragweed plant is a common allergen

  Familiarity information: RAGWEED POLLEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAGWEED POLLEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pollen of the ragweed plant is a common allergen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("ragweed pollen" is a kind of...):

pollen (the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant)

allergen (any substance that can cause an allergy)

 Context examples 

An arbitrary unit for the measurement of Amb a 1 (or Antigen E), a 38 kD glycoprotein that is the major allergen in short ragweed pollen allergen extracts.

(Amb a 1 Unit, NCI Thesaurus)