pollen

1. 1.

   the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant

   Broaderspore

   Narrowerpolliniumragweed pollen

Other forms of pollen

plural

pollens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pollen

What does pollen mean?

pollen means "the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant".

How many syllables are in pollen?

pollen has 2 syllables: pol-len. The stress falls on "pol". In IPA it is /ˈpɑlən/.

Is pollen a common word?

pollen is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.