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POLLINIUM

Definition: POLLINIUM

POLLINIUM

Noun

1. A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "POLLINIUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)

Etymology: Pollinium \Pol*lin"i*um\, noun; plural Pollinia. New Latin See Pollen.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: POLLINIUM

English words defined with "POLLINIUM": Pollen mass, Pollinia. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Pollinium

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pollinium, or plural pollinia, is a coherent mass of pollen grains. They are the product of only one anther, but are transferred, during pollination, as a single unit. This is regularly seen in various plants such as, orchids and some species of the Asclepiadaceae family.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pollinium."

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Rhyming with "POLLINIUM"

Words rhyming with "POLLINIUM" (pronounced 'Pol*lin"i*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: POLLINIUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-i-l-l-m-n-o-p-u"

-2 letters: million, mullion, pillion.

-3 letters: ionium, limuli, moulin.

-4 letters: ilium, imino, linum, lipin, lupin, onium, opium, poilu.

-5 letters: impi, limn, limo, limp, lino, lion, loin, loup, lump, mill, milo, mini, moil, moll, mull, muni, muon, nill, noil, null, pili, pill, pion, plum, poll, puli, pull, upon.

 Words containing the letters "i-i-l-l-m-n-o-p-u"
 

+4 letters: pusillanimous.

 

+5 letters: multiplication, multipotential.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: POLLINIUM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 4C 4C 49 4E 49 55 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01001100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01001001 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#76 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#73 &#85 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 004C 004C 0049 004E 0049 0055 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

504946464348435547

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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