FromLatin pollen ( “ fine flour ” ) . Used byLinnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.
Pollen grains on a flower.pollen (usuallyuncountable ,plural pollens
A fine,granular substance produced in flowers. ( botany ) Pollen grains (microspores ) produced in theanthers of flowering plants.[from mid 18th century] ( obsolete ) [16th-century per OED] fine granular substance produced in flowers
Albanian:pjalm (sq) m Amharic:please add this translation if you can Ancient Greek:please add this translation if you can Arabic:حُبُوبُ اللِّقَاح m pl ( ḥubūbu l-liqāḥ ) ,حُبُوبُ الطَّلْع m pl ( ḥubūbu ṭ-ṭalʕ ) Aragonese:polen m Armenian:ծաղկափոշի (hy) ( caġkapʻoši ) Assamese:please add this translation if you can Asturian:polen m Azerbaijani:please add this translation if you can Bashkir:һеркә ( herkə ) Basque:lore-hauts (eu) ,polen (eu) Bengali:পরাগ (bn) ( porag ) Bhojpuri:पराग ( parāg ) Breton:please add this translation if you can Bulgarian:цветен прашец m ( cveten prašec ) ,полен m ( polen ) Catalan:pol·len (ca) m Chakma:please add this translation if you can Chinese:Cantonese:花粉 ( faa1 fan2 ) Hokkien:花粉 (zh-min-nan) ( hoe-hún ) Mandarin:花粉 (zh) ( huāfěn ) Czech:pyl (cs) m Danish:pollen (da) n Dhivehi:please add this translation if you can Dutch:stuifmeel (nl) n pollen (nl) n Esperanto:poleno Estonian:õietolm Finnish:siitepöly (fi) French:pollen (fr) m Galician:pole (gl) m Georgian:მტვერი ( mṭveri ) German:Blütenstaub (de) m Pollen (de) m pl Greek:γύρη (el) f ( gýri ) Gujarati:પરાગ m ( parāg ) Hawaiian:ehu ʻehu Hebrew:אִבקָה (he) f Hindi:पराग (hi) m ( parāg ) ,रेणुका (hi) f ( reṇukā ) Hungarian:pollen (hu) ,virágpor (hu) Icelandic:frjókorn (is) n Ido:poleno (io) Indonesian:polen (id) ,serbuk sari (id) Irish:pailin f Italian:polline (it) m Japanese:花粉 (ja) ( かふん , kafun) Kannada:ಪರಾಗ (kn) ( parāga ) Khmer:លំអង (km) ( lumʼɑɑng ) Korean:꽃가루 (ko) ( kkotgaru ) Lao:please add this translation if you can Latin:pollen n Latvian:ziedputekšņi m pl putekšņi m pl Lithuanian:žiedadulkė f Malay:debunga (ms) Malayalam:പൂമ്പൊടി (ml) ( pūmpoṭi ) Maori:puehu hae Norwegian:Bokmål:pollen n Nynorsk:pollen n Occitan:pollèn (oc) m Odia:please add this translation if you can Polish:pyłek (pl) m Portuguese:pólen (pt) m Punjabi:ਪਰਾਗ m ( parāg ) Rohingya:please add this translation if you can Romanian:polen (ro) n Russian:пыльца́ (ru) f ( pylʹcá ) ,цве́тень (ru) m ( cvétenʹ ) Samoan:please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:по̀лен m пѐлуд m Roman:pòlen (sh) m pèlud (sh) m Sinhalese:please add this translation if you can Slovak:peľ m Slovene:cvetni prah (sl) m Spanish:polen (es) m Swedish:pollen (sv) n Tagalog:mawo Tahitian:please add this translation if you can Tamil:மகரந்தம் (ta) ( makarantam ) Telugu:పరాగరేణువు (te) ( parāgarēṇuvu ) Thai:เรณู (th) ( ree-nuu ) ,ละอองเรณู ( lá-ɔɔng-ree-nuu ) ,เกสร (th) ( gee-sɔ̌ɔn ) Tibetan:please add this translation if you can Tocharian B:spaitu Tongan:please add this translation if you can Turkish:çiçek tozu (tr) ,polen (tr) Turkmen:please add this translation if you can Ukrainian:пило́к m ( pylók ) Urdu:please add this translation if you can Uyghur:please add this translation if you can Uzbek:please add this translation if you can Vietnamese:phấn (vi) ,phấn hoa Volapük:please add this translation if you can Welsh:paill m Yiddish:please add this translation if you can
pollen (third-person singular simple present pollens present participle pollening simple past and past participle pollened
( transitive , poetic ) FromLatin pollen
pollen n singular definite pollenet plural indefinite pollen
( botany ) pollen FromLatin pollen
pollen n uncountable nodiminutive )
pollen The common term in Dutch isstuifmeel pollen is found in biology texts, but is furthermore in common use when identifying the causative agent ofhay fever . In that sense, the word is often mistakenly construed as being plural (“Tranende, jeukende ogen en een loopneus: pollen zijn geen pretje”,Metro Het Laatste Nieuws De Telegraaf
FromEnglish poll
pollen
( computing ) poll , to periodically check the status of a device or variablepollen
plural ofpol Learned borrowing fromLatin pollen
pollen m plural pollens
pollen pollen (weak third-person singular present pollt past tense pollte past participle gepollt auxiliary haben
( computing ) poll , to periodically check the status of a device or variable.1 Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative inwürde
Composed forms of
pollen (
weak , auxiliary
haben )
Probably from aProto-Indo-European *pel- ( “ flour, dust ” ) ; compare withAncient Greek πάλη ( pálē ,“ the finest meal; any fine dust ” ) , as well aspulvis [ 1]
pollen n genitive pollinis third declension
( literally ) flour especially fine milldust ( transferred sense ) the (very powder or dust of other things pollen piperis ground pepper (literally, “powder of pepperpollen tūris incensepowder aliquid in pollen tundere to grind something intopowder Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
( transferred sense: fine powderor dust ) : pulvis ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008 ), “pollen, -inis”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN page477 “pollen Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ),A Latin Dictionary “pollen Charlton T. Lewis (1891 ),An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers “pollĕn ”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934 ),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette, page1,195/1 . Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002 ), “pollen”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch page131 Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911 ), “pŏllen”, inRomanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German),page497 FromLatin pollen
pollen n definite singular pollenet
( botany ) pollen FromLatin pollen
pollen n definite singular pollenet
( botany ) pollen pollen m
definite singular ofpoll pollen n uncountable
( botany ) pollen 
