polle

n. [ L. pollen fine flour, fine dust; cf. Gr. &unr_; ] 1. Fine bran or flour. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. --
Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. --
Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. --
Pollen tube, a slender tube which issues from the pollen grain on its contact with the stigma, which it penetrates, thus conveying, it is supposed, the fecundating matter of the grain to the ovule. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of meal or pollen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with pollen. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pollen + -ferous. ] (Bot.) Producing pollen; polliniferous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pollénine. ] (Chem.) A substance found in the pollen of certain plants. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pollenized p. pr. & vb. n. Pollenizing ] To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Poll ] One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops trees. (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [ R. ] (c) One who extorts or plunders. [ Obs. ] Bacon. (d) One who registers voters, or one who enters his name as a voter. [ 1913 Webster ]