单词 | self-pollination |
释义 | self-pollinationn. Botany. The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma of the same flower or same plant.Often used with the implication of self-fertilization (cf. pollination n.). ΚΠ 1872 W. E. Hart in Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 10 25 Hildebrand has shown..that sometimes, where at first sight self-pollenation (a better word, I think, for ‘Bestäubung’, than ‘pollenization’, suggested by Mr. Bennett) seems to be the intention of Nature, this is not followed by fertilization. 1876 G. Henslow in Nature 19 Oct. 544/1 The pistil recovers itself, and its growth is equal to or precedes that of the stamens, the result issuing in a synchronous maturity, and consequently self-pollination. 1936 W. Stiles Introd. Princ. Plant Physiol. xviii. 411 In some plants normally pollinated by insects, self-pollination is still possible if insect-pollination fails. 1974 A. J. Huxley Plant & Planet xiii. 124 A fail-safe device, such as..self-pollination as a last resort. 2015 J. Warren Nature of Crops iii. 45 Routinely, flowers contain mechanisms that prevent self-pollination. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1872 |
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