Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fitted for collecting and carrying pollen; polliniferous.
- Collecting and carrying pollen: a term applied to bees which collect pollen for the sustenance of their young.
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"Now, on one occasion, in a flower belonging to an individual of _Salvia verticillata_, and only on the left stamen, I observed a perfectly developed and pollinigerous lower cell, perfectly homologous with that which is normally developed in _Salvia officinalis_.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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