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pollinate

How to use pollinate in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for pollinate.

Editorial note

Even basement/garage growers will use bees to pollinate.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

fertilize by transfering pollen

Meaning at a glance

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verb

fertilize by transfering pollen

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pollinate.

Example sentences

1

Even basement/garage growers will use bees to pollinate.

2

Until they cross-pollinate with a patented GM crop...

3

They are put under great stress every year to pollinate almonds - it is the greatest bee mixer/spring break in the world.

4

Because it is open-pollinated,\n not a hybrid, its seeds can be saved by any farmer.

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The largest issue, which the author points out, is all of the bee migration: going out to pollinate almonds in CA, and then blueberries in MI, etc.

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The article clearly states that we are spraying crops that bees pollinate with pesticides that are known to kill them, but people are still acting like it's a mystery.

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He let insects cross-pollinate\n them en masse, and the resulting plants were crossed at random\n again—and again, and again, four generations in a row.

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Has google hired a lot of MBA's recently, because it look an awful lot like they are trying to cross-pollinate their main business lines, to improve vertical integration and uptake.

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But information you have committed to long-term memory can cross-pollinate, become a greater structure, open up new horizons.

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First, it's 85% effective in solving the elephant problem; second, free honey which makes the fence a profitable venture in its own right; and third, the bees will pollinate the crops they're protecting, potentially maximizing crop yield.

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When the systems being produced by Google leak details intended for use in only one service or product start to cross pollinate in a way that is difficult for the average user to understand, it is not user error it is designer error.

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For example, if just the NT kernel could be separated into its own project, with a clean linkage-point, there'd probably be all sorts of interesting efforts to, for example, create a Debian/NT distribution, or cross-pollinate driver code between Windows and Linux.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use pollinate in a sentence?

Even basement/garage growers will use bees to pollinate.

What does pollinate mean?

fertilize by transfering pollen

What part of speech is pollinate?

pollinate is commonly used as verb.