pollen
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For the next 49,000 years, the sticky pits captured virtually everything that fell or walked onto them, from grains of pollen borne by the wind to hapless ancient camels and Columbian mammoths.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
The samples contained pollen and plant waxes associated with humid West African rainforests, while very low levels of grass pollen suggested the site was surrounded by dense woodland rather than a thin strip of forest.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2026
"They took bees back and growed them in the lab, they cultured all the pollen, the wax, and many, many things."
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Janine Griffiths-Lee, a pollination research lead, said that trees provided "sources of pollen and nectar earlier in the season".
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
The anther and the stigma mature inside the flower’s clasplike keel, and the pollen is dusted directly from a flower’s anther to its own stigma.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing pollen
Life Science: Plants
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Plants (Botany) - Introduction
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Plants (Botany) - Middle School
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