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pollen
1. The fine powderlike material consisting of pollen grains that is produced by the anthers of seed plants.
2. The fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.

As a botanical term for the fertilizing element of flowers (from Linnæus, 1751), earlier "dust" (1523); from Latin pollen, "mill dust, fine flour", related to polenta, "peeled barley", and pulvis, "dust". Pollination is first recorded in 1875, from French pollination; formed in 1812 from Latin pollen.

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(Greek: pollen, spores)
(Latin: fertilizing male elements of flowers; fine flour; milldust; spores; powder)