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cross-pollinate

[ US /ˈkɹɔˌspɑɫəˌneɪt/ ]
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  1. fertilize by transfering pollen

How To Use cross-pollinate In A Sentence

  • Preserve seed that hasn't been cross-pollinated.
  • Here, flowers cross-pollinate, birds settle indoors, thistles break through floors, and shards of glass and china lie on the grass.
  • By all measures, the beef from these cross-pollinated calves is ‘substantially equivalent’ to that of my purebreds.
  • He claims he only cross-pollinates different species of poplar to breed a disease resistant strain, ‘just like it's done in nature.’
  • It is specifically because I’m a carrier of raconteur’s disease, in its most virulent form, that I have come to realize that one can never really cross-pollinate the act of live storytelling with its literary reflection. An Interview with Thomas Steinbeck
  • When the crops flower, they will cross-pollinate, and the organic farmer may have a problem.
  • Cross-pollinated flowers were not emasculated, and pollinations were performed by rubbing anthers onto stigmas.
  • They can migrate, mutate, and cross-pollinate with other plants.
  • Seed set was estimated as the percentage of cross-pollinated flowers that produced achenes (one-seeded fruits).
  • It can self-pollinate, which saves one from having to manually go in with a tiny brush, but it can also be cross-pollinated.
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