pollinate

English

Etymology

From pollin- (compound form of "pollen") +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlɪneɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

pollinate (third-person singular simple present pollinates, present participle pollinating, simple past and past participle pollinated)

1. To apply pollen to (a stigma).

Derived terms

• self-pollinating

Translations

to apply pollen to

• Albanian: mbars (sq), pllenoj (sq)
• Asturian: polinizar
• Bulgarian: опрашвам (bg) (oprašvam)
• Catalan: pol·linitzar (ca)
• Czech: opylit
• Danish: bestøve
• Finnish: pölyttää (fi)
• French: polliniser (fr)
• Galician: polinizar (gl)
• Georgian: დამტვერვა (damṭverva), პოლინაცია (ṗolinacia)
• German: bestäuben (de)
• Greek: επικονιάζω (el) (epikoniázo)
• Hungarian: beporoz (hu)
• Ingrian: pöllyttää
• Irish: pailnigh
• Italian: impollinare (it)
• Maori: haenga
• Portuguese: polinizar (pt)
• Romanian: poleniza (ro)
• Russian: опыля́ть (ru) impf (opyljátʹ), опыли́ть (ru) pf (opylítʹ)
• Spanish: polinizar (es)
• Swedish: pollinera (sv)
• Thai: ผสมเกสร (pà-sǒm-gee-sɔ̌ɔn)
• Ukrainian: запи́лювати impf (zapýljuvaty), запили́ти pf (zapylýty)
• Vietnamese: thụ phấn (vi)

Adjective

pollinate

1. (zoology) Pollinose.

References

• “pollinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.