pollen

Meaning

1. (declension-3, literally, neuter) flour, especially fine flour, milldust
2. (declension-3, neuter) the (very) fine powder or dust of other things

Concepts

fine flour

pollen

Translations

حُبُوب اللِقَاح

pol·len

Blütenstaub

Pollen

γύρη

pollen

polline

pollen

stuifmeel

pólen

polen

çiçek tozu

polen

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈpɔl.lɛn]

Etymology

Probably from a Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”); compare with Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “the finest meal; any fine dust”), as well as pulvis (though De Vaan is skeptical of the latter link).