pollinicadj.

Brit.

/pəˈlɪnɪk/, U.S.

/pəˈlɪnɪk/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pollinicus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin pollinicus of or containing pollen (in massa pollinica pollinic mass: L. C. Richard 1818 in Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 4 35) < classical Latin pollin- , pollen pollen n. + -icus -ic suffix. Compare French pollinique (1832). Compare pollinical adj.

Of, relating to, containing, or derived from pollen; (Medicine) of, relating to, or suffering from allergy to pollen.Recorded earliest in pollinic mass n. at Compounds.

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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pollinicus..L. C. Richard terms pollinic masses the heap of compact pollen that fills each partial cavity of the anther in the Orchideæ and Asclepiadeæ.

1872 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 737/1 In the embryo sac there are produced, before impregnation, certain cells..which are called germinal vesicles, only one of which in general is impregnated by the pollinic fluid.

1916 Bot. Gaz. 62 371 The flower of a hybrid cherry tree..whose ‘stamina’ formed a compact mass in which the pollen did not divide into pollinic or fertile dust as in the case of fruitful trees.

1967 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 57 124/1 Their flora was reconstituted by the pollinic analysis of the swampy blackish silts of Tarhenanet.

2003 Allergy 58 680 (title) The perfect storm: the best conditions for making pollinic patients' symptoms worse.

Compounds

† pollinic chamber n. Obsolete rare = pollen chamber n. at pollen n. Compounds 2.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > pollen and related parts

sandarac1623

globulet1671

powder1672

bread1682

farina1721

pollen1723

father-dust1728

rough wax1744

yellow rain1755

dust1776

fovilla1793

anther dust1797

pollen mass1828

pollen tube1830

intextine1835

pollen grain1835

pollen granule1835

exine1839

exintine1839

intine1839

pollinium1849

sulphur shower1854

pollinic mass1857

pollen chamber1863

smoke1868

pollen sac1872

pollinarium1881

sulphur rain1882

pollinic chamber1885

perine1895

pollen content1926

sculpturing1943

monad1947

nexine1948

sexine1948

1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. ii. xiv. 438 A sort of depression at the summit of the endosperm, which has been called the pollinic chamber.

† pollinic mass n. Obsolete rare a pollinium; cf. pollen mass n. at pollen n. Compounds 2.

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