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| allergic |
having abnormal or disabling sensitivity to certain agents such as drugs, food, or pollen, resulting in a hypersensitive reaction upon exposure (usu. fol. by "to"). [1/3 definitions] |
| anemophilous |
of plants, pollinated by wind-blown pollen. |
| anther |
in botany, the part of a flower's stamen that bears pollen. |
| autogamy |
in botany, self-fertilization, as of a flower with its own pollen. [1/2 definitions] |
| beebread |
a mixture of nectar and pollen made by bees to feed to their larvae. |
| bee fly |
any of several two-winged flies that resemble bees and that feed on pollen and nectar. |
| cross-fertilize |
to fertilize by pollen, sperm, or another male gamete from a different individual, or with different genes or from a different species. |
| cross-pollinate |
to pollinate by placing pollen from one plant on the pistil of another of a different type. |
| cross-pollination |
the transfer of pollen, as by bees, from one flower to another of different genetic composition, resulting in the production of a hybrid; cross-fertilization. |
| diclinous |
of a plant, having the pollen-bearing and seed-bearing organs in separate flowers. [1/2 definitions] |
| endogamy |
the fertilization of a flower by pollen from another flower on the same plant. [1/2 definitions] |
| hay fever |
an allergic reaction to plant pollen, characterized by mucus from the nose, sneezing, and headache. |
| pollinate |
to transfer pollen to; fertilize the seeds of with pollen. |
| ragweed |
a weed of the daisy family that produces abundant airborne pollen in the fall. |
| rose fever |
a form of hay fever that occurs in spring or early summer as an allergic reaction to rose pollen. |
| self-fertilization |
the fertilization of a plant by its own pollen, or of an animal by its own sperm. |
| self-pollination |
the pollination of a flower through the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma of the same plant. (Cf. cross-pollination.) |
| stamen |
the stalklike part of a flower that produces and bears the pollen. |
| stigma |
part of a plant that receives pollen; pistil. [1/5 definitions] |
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