pollenate

Transfer flower dust

Pollenate is a less common spelling of pollinate—to transfer pollen from one flower to another, enabling fertilization and seed production.

Bees pollenate crops as they gather nectar.

The spelling with an e is rarer but not incorrect.

Related

honey bee · bumble bee · fertilization · butterflies · stigma · bloom · spring bloom · hummingbirds · ovule · moths · buzzing · birds and bees · nectar · orchard · fruit tree · flowers · flower bed · harvest

Opposites
reproductive process stage

pollenategerminate

Begin plant development

seed dispersal · fruit · wither · decay · die back

reproductive success

pollenatesterilize

Eliminate all microorganisms

self-incompatibility · abort · emasculate

Family

pollenated

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G