Word Meanings - WIND-FERTILIZED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.

Related words: (words related to WIND-FERTILIZED)

• BORNE
  Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
• POLLENIN
  A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.
• POLLEN
  The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain , a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually
• FERTILIZATION
  The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization
• FERTILIZE
  1. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron. 2. To fecundate; as, to fertilize
• POLLENIFEROUS
  Producing pollen; polliniferous.
• POLLENIZE
  To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.
• FERTILIZER
  1. One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid. A. R. Wallace. 2. That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.
• POLLENED
  Covered with pollen. Tennyson.
• BORNEOL
  A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European
• POLLENARIOUS
  Consisting of meal or pollen.
• SELF-FERTILIZED
  Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
• FORBORNE
  p. p. of Forbear.
• PREPOLLENT
  Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant. Boyle.
• SUBORNER
  One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
• PREPOLLENCE; PREPOLLENCY
  The quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence. Coventry.
• SHARD-BORNE
  Borne on shards or scaly wing cases. "The shard-borne beetle." Shak.
• EQUIPOLLENCE; EQUIPOLLENCY
  Sameness of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language. (more info) 1. Equality of power, force, signification, or application. Boyle.
• EQUIPOLLENT
  Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently. (more info) 1. Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon.
• SELF-FERTILIZATION
  The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.
• WIND-FERTILIZED
  Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
• EQUIPOLLENTLY
  With equal power. Barrow.