noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pollen count
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The pollen count was high yesterday.
pollen count...high
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The pollen count was high yesterday.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
count
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At the start of the season sufferers usually begin to experience problems when the pollen count reaches 50.
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When the pollen count is high, keep doors and windows shut and stay inside.
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It was July and the pollen count was high.
grain
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It takes more than a strip at the edge of a field to stop pollen grains from spreading round the countryside.
■ VERB
produce
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Some varieties do not produce good pollen , others are very good, but are poor receivers and not good seed-bearers.
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A male is defined as the gender that produces sperm or pollen: small, mobile, multitudinous gametes.
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Unlike the cycads, they produce both pollen and egg-bearing cones on the same tree.
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One that also produces pollen can generate plants that spread far and wide.
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So the pine tree has to produce pollen in gigantic quantities.
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A whole pine forest produces so much pollen that ponds become covered with curds of it - and all of it wasted.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the foragers grow older they move from a juvenile taste for sweet nectar to a more refined preference for pollen .
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However, it is important to remember that the pollen zones are not uniform across large areas.
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If its own pollen is there, why accept an outsider?
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Induk said, exhaling, dispersing my ashes like pollen into the night air.
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No pollen analyses of undisputed late-glacial deposits from the Outer Hebrides have been published.
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The pollen of one flower is transferred to another by means of a fine brush.
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These prizes of pollen and nectar have to be advertised.