| 单词 | self-pollinate | 
| 释义 | self-pollinatev. Botany.   intransitive. To carry out self-pollination. Occasionally also transitive: to pollinate (a plant) with its own pollen, esp. by artificial means. ΚΠ 1891    Bull. Iowa State Coll. Agric. Exper. Station No. 13. 93  				Red Clover does not self-pollinate nor fertilize. 1921    Domest. Beekeeper Aug. 15/2  				It is authoritatively said that the cucumber is a plant that will not self-pollenate. 1990    National Gardening Mar. 38/1  				He could self-pollinate the plants under controlled conditions (during years in which they do set fruit) to get a few seeds of a purer strain to use for further breeding. 2015    J. Warren Nature of Crops iv. 67  				These cleistogamous flowers (to use their technical name) automatically self-pollinate and thus don't require the services of unreliable early spring insects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  | 
	
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