pollen-analyticaladj.
/ˌpɒlənˌanəˈlɪtᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈˌpɑlənˌænəˈlɪdᵻk(ə)l/ = pollen-analytic adj.
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the world > plants > botany > [adjective] > pollen-analysis
pollen-analytical1923
pollen-analytic1934
palynological1946
1923 Geografiska Annaler 5 172 Through pollen-analytical investigations Lundquist has found that the aeolic sand intermixed in the peat disappears in the layers corresponding to the beginning of sub-boreal time.
1946 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past iii. 59 Further important remarks on the principles and system of pollen-analytical datings are included in a great many papers.
1981 G. Daniel Short Hist. Archaeol. iii. 145 These phases were confirmed by pollen-analytical methods first developed by Lennart von Post.
Derivatives
ˌpollen-anaˈlytically adv.
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the world > plants > botany > [adverb] > in relation to pollen analysis
pollen-analytically1933
palynologically1955
1933 Geografiska Annaler 15 252 A systematical examination of the deposits—stratigraphically, geochronologically, pollen-analytically and by all other appropriate methods of research—has to be a cardinal point of the program.
1994 Jrnl. Ecol. 82 796 (caption) B, D and F are pollen-analytically determined horizons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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