pollen
Definitions of pollen
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the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering planttype of:sporea small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion
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