pollination

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In botany, the supplying of pollen to the part of the female organ prepared to receive it, preliminary to fertilization. See pollen-tube.

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The fertilization of plants by the agency of insects that carry pollen from one flower to another.

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the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.

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transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant