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Definition of pollinate
pollinated
;pollinating
transitive verb
1 : to carry out the pollination of
2 : to mark or smudge with pollen
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Examples of pollinate in a Sentence
The plants are pollinated by bees.
Recent Examples of pollinate from the Web
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The plants have to be pollinated to produce berries, and the bees didn't do their part.
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Insects bind together nearly every ecosystem by pollinating 80 percent of food plants and recycling dead organic matter.
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In Europe, bumblebees and honeybees can be purchased and used to pollinate flowering plants.
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The two environments have cross pollinated regularly since.
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Colony collapse disorder, for example, is a major problem for commercial honeybee hives used to pollinate agricultural crops.
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Bats have many useful roles, from pollinating flowers to controlling insects.
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Most people start beekeeping to start a new hobby and produce their own honey or help pollinate plants, Rice said, but for amateurs, there's not much money to be made.
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Pollinating cockroaches are exceedingly rare: Only two species are known, one in French Guiana, the other on Malaysian Borneo.
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First Known Use of pollinate
1873
POLLINATE Defined for English Language Learners
pollinate
playDefinition of pollinate for English Language Learners
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: to give (a plant) pollen from another plant of the same kind so that seeds will be produced
POLLINATE Defined for Kids
pollinate
playDefinition of pollinate for Students
pollinated
;pollinating
: to transfer or carry pollen from a stamen to a pistil of a flower or from a male cone to a female cone Bees are pollinating the clover.
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