pollinizern.
/ˈpɒlᵻnʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈpɑləˌnaɪzər/ Chiefly North American.
A plant or cultivar that provides pollen for the natural or artificial cross-pollination of another plant or cultivar. Also: an insect or other agent that pollinates a plant. Cf. pollinator n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > pollination > involving particular type of agency > agent that pollinates plant
pollinator1883
pollinizer1892
1892 Missouri Bot. Garden Ann. Rep. 101 He maintained that the color, form, odor, secretions, and the general structure of flowers had reference to insects which are essential as pollinizers.
1903 Amer. Naturalist 37 382 Müller finds it difficult to explain the origin of the blue coloring by the selective influence of the pollenizers.
1946 T. J. Talbert Gen. Hort. iii. 72 Practically any of the varieties [of pear] grown successfully will act as good pollenizers for each other.
1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) v. 75 When crosses are made, Poncirus must be the pollinizer (in plants always the second-named parent).
1999 Austral. Jrnl. Exper. Agric. 39 473 Pollinisers of the sweet cherry cultivars ‘Stella’ and ‘Summit’ were determined.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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