pollinate

English

Etymology

From pollin- (“pollen”, stem form) +‎ -ate.

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

• Asturian: polinizar
• Catalan: pol·linitzar (ca)
• Czech: opylit
• Danish: bestøve
• Finnish: pölyttää (fi)
• French: polleniser (fr)
• Galician: polinizar
• Georgian: დამტვერვა (damṭverva), პოლინაცია (ṗolinacia)
• German: bestäuben (de)
• Greek: επικονιάζω (el) (epikoniázo)
• Hungarian: beporoz (hu)

• Irish: pailnigh
• Italian: impollinare (it)
• Maori: haenga
• Portuguese: polinizar
• Russian: опыля́ть (ru) impf (opyljátʹ), опыли́ть (ru) pf (opylítʹ)
• Spanish: polinizar (es)
• Swedish: pollinera (sv)
• Thai: ผสมเกสร (pà-sǒm-gee-sɔ̌ɔn)
• Vietnamese: thụ phấn (vi)

Adjective

pollinate

1. (zoology) Pollinose.

References

• pollinate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.