Past tense of pollinate
regular verb
The past tense of pollinate is pollinated. The past participle is also pollinated.
Forms of pollinate
| Base form (V1) | pollinate /ˈpɒlɪneɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | pollinated |
| Past participle (V3) | pollinated |
| Present participle | pollinating |
| Third person singular | pollinates |
Pollinated in a sentence
- Bees and flowers display symbiosis. The bees get nectar and the flowers get pollinated.From the entry symbiosis
- Once pollinated the strobilus now becomes a conelet.2009, Claire G. Williams, Conifer Reproductive Biology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN. From the entry strobilus
- To add insult to injury, sundew’s summer flowers are usually pollinated by the same unsuspecting flies that they devour.1997, Doug Bennet, Tim Tiner, Up North Again: More of Ontario’s Wilderness, from Ladybugs to the Pleiades, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN…. From the entry unvegetarian
- Whether flowers were pollinated or not, autonomous egg and antipodal embryonies occurred at nearly equal frequencies and progressed almost synchronously for several days.1992 March, A. Kojima, Y. Nagato, “Pseudogamous embryogenesis and the degree of parthenogenesis in Allium tuberosum”, in Sexual Plant…. From the entry embryony
- Lithops are self-sterile, so that seed will only be produced if the plant is pollinated from another specimen from a different clone or group.1978, Margaret J. Martin, Peter Richard Chapman, Succulents and Their Cultivation, Schribner, page 86. From the entry lithops
Meaning of pollinate
- verb To apply pollen to (a stigma).
- adjective Pollinose.
Questions about the past tense of pollinate
- What is the past tense of pollinate?
- The past tense of pollinate is pollinated.
- What is the past participle of pollinate?
- The past participle of pollinate is pollinated.
- Is pollinate a regular or irregular verb?
- Pollinate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pollinate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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