pollinate
verb🔊/ˈpɒləneɪt/
🔊/ˈpɑːləneɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they pollinate | 🔊/ˈpɒləneɪt/ 🔊/ˈpɑːləneɪt/ |
| he / she / it pollinates | 🔊/ˈpɒləneɪts/ 🔊/ˈpɑːləneɪts/ |
| past simple pollinated | 🔊/ˈpɒləneɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈpɑːləneɪtɪd/ |
| past participle pollinated | 🔊/ˈpɒləneɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈpɑːləneɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form pollinating | 🔊/ˈpɒləneɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈpɑːləneɪtɪŋ/ |
- pollinate something
to put pollen into a flower or plant so that it produces seeds 授粉；传粉 flowers pollinated by bees/the wind 由蜜蜂／风传粉的花卉
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPollinate is used with these nouns as the subject:- bee
- flower
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Latin pollen, pollin- ‘pollen’ + -ate.