pollenとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒlən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlən/
• 韻: -ɒlən
• ハイフネーション: pol‧len

名詞

Pollen grains on a flower.

pollen (usually uncountable, 複数形 pollens)

1. A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.)
   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

2. (obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour. (16th-century usage documented by the OED.)
   • "...and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne,... as well of pollen, as of other vitailes..." Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord [1]

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Bailey to this entry?)

派生語

関連する語

• pollinate

動詞

pollen (三人称単数 現在形 pollens, 現在分詞 pollening, 過去形および過去分詞形 pollened)

1. (transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen.

参考

• palynologic
• palynological
• palynologist
• palynology

Latin

別の表記

• pollis

語源

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”); compare with pulvis and Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “the finest meal”, “any fine dust”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpol.len/, [ˈpɔlːʲɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpol.len/, [ˈpɔlːɛn]

名詞

pollen n (genitive pollinis); third declension

1. (literally) flour, especially fine flour, milldust
2. (transferred sense) the (very) fine powder or dust of other things

   pollen piperis

   ground pepper [lit. powder of pepper]

   pollen tūris

   incense powder

   aliquid in pollen tundere

   to grind something into powder

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

同意語

• (transferred sense: fine powder または dust): pulvis

派生語

派生した語

• → Catalan: pol·len
• → English: pollen
• → French: pollen
• → German: Pollen
• → Portuguese: pólen
• → Spanish: polen

参照

• pollen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pollen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pollĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,195/1