pollination

English

Alternative forms

• pollenation

Etymology

From pollinate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɒlɪˈneɪʃən/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑləˈneɪʃən/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˌpɔləˈnæɪʃən/, /ˌpɒləˈnæɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

Pollination by a bee

pollination (countable and uncountable, plural pollinations)

1. (botany) The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.

Derived terms

• buzz pollination
• cross-pollination
• postpollination
• self-pollination
• self pollination

Translations

transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma

• Bengali: পরাগমিলন (bn) (poragmilon)
• Breton: pollenadur m
• Catalan: pol·linització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 授粉 (zh) (shòufěn), 授精 (zh) (shòujīng)

• Czech: opylení (cs) n, opylování n
• Dutch: bestuiving (nl) f
• Finnish: pölytys (fi)
• French: pollinisation (fr) f
• Georgian: დამტვერვა (damṭverva), პოლინაცია (ṗolinacia)
• German: Bestäubung f
• Hindi: परागण m (parāgaṇ)
• Hungarian: beporzás (hu), megtermékenyítés (hu), pollenizáció, pollináció
• Indonesian: penyerbukan (id), polinasi
• Irish: pailniú m
• Italian: impollinazione (it) f, pollinazione
• Japanese: 授精 (じゅせい, jusei), 受粉 (ja) (じゅふん, jufun)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: perîn (ku)

• Macedonian: опрашување n (oprašuvanje)
• Malay: pendebungaan (ms)
• Malayalam: പരാഗണം (ml) (parāgaṇaṁ)
• Māori: ruinga hae
• Portuguese: polinização (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਪਰਾਗਣ f (parāgaṇ)
• Romanian: polenizare (ro) f, polenizație (ro) f
• Russian: опыле́ние (ru) n (opylénije)
• Spanish: polinización (es) f
• Swedish: pollinering (sv) c, pollination (sv) c
• Telugu: పరాగసంపర్కము (te) (parāgasamparkamu)
• Ukrainian: запи́лення n (zapýlennja)
• Welsh: peillio (cy)

Swedish

Noun

pollination c

1. (botany) synonym of pollinering (“pollination”)

Usage notes

Pollinering is more common.

Declension

Declension of pollination

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pollination	pollinations
	definite	pollinationen	pollinationens
plural	indefinite	pollinationer	pollinationers
	definite	pollinationerna	pollinationernas

Related terms

• pollen
• pollinera

References

• “pollination”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “pollination”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “pollination”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)