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pollinate

/ˈpɒlɪneɪt/

pollinate verb: to apply pollen to (a stigma).

pollinate: to apply pollen to (a stigma)
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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).
    • pollinate plants
    • pollinate flowers

Adjective

pollinate

  1. Pollinose.

pollinate meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and Arabic

pollinate in Hindi

to apply pollen to
परागण parāgaṇ

pollinate in Bengali

পরাগায়ন ঘটানো, পরাগরেণু স্থানান্তরিত করা

pollinate in Kannada

ಬಂಡುಮುಟ್ಟಿಸು, ಪರಾಗಸ್ಪರ್ಶ ಮಾಡು, ಪರಾಗ ಉದುರಿಸು

pollinate in Arabic

to apply pollen to
لَقَّحَ laqqaḥa
More languagesFewer languages
pollinate in Thai
ผสมเกสร pà-sǒm-gee-sɔ̌ɔn
pollinate in Vietnamese
thụ phấn

Examples of pollinate in a sentence

  • Bees help pollinate flowers as they collect nectar.
  • Farmers often import bees to pollinate their crops.

All 15 example sentences with pollinate

Forms of pollinate

third-person singular presentpollinates
present participlepollinating
past participlepollinated
pastpollinated

Past tense of pollinate: pollinated

Origin of pollinate

From pollin- (compound form of "pollen") + -ate (verb-forming suffix). From oblique stem of Latin pollen, pollinis.

Words formed from pollinate

Questions about pollinate

What does pollinate mean?
Pollinate means to apply pollen to (a stigma).
What is pollinate in Hindi?
Pollinate in Hindi is परागण (parāgaṇ). See Pollinate meaning in Hindi.
How do you use pollinate in a sentence?
Bees help pollinate flowers as they collect nectar.
What part of speech is pollinate?
Pollinate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce pollinate?
Pollinate is pronounced /ˈpɒlɪneɪt/.
What is the past tense of pollinate?
The past tense of pollinate is pollinated.

Words near pollinate in the dictionary

  1. pollinar
  2. pollinaria
  3. pollinarium
  4. Pollinas
  5. pollinastanol
  6. pollinate
  7. pollinated
  8. pollinates
  9. pollinating
  10. pollination
  11. pollinations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pollinate (page history and authors); pollinate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pollinate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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