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Hayfever vs Pollen - What's the difference?

hayfever | pollen |

As nouns the difference between hayfever and pollen

is that hayfever is while pollen is .

hayfever

English

Noun

  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 29, , The Leafs' Garden of Weedin', Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=RAGWEED ( Jeffogia Fingerolia) : The hayfever king, ragweed, brings tears to the eyes of grown men. }}

    pollen

    English

    (wikipedia pollen)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Fine powder in general, fine flour (16th century usage documented by OED; no longer common.)
  • * "...and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne,... as well of pollen, as of other vitailes..." Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord [https://archive.org/details/chroniclefroiss00froigoog]
    • (Bailey)
  • A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.)
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
    • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}

    Related terms

    * pollinate

    Derived terms

    * pollen analysis * pollenarious * pollen basket * pollen count * pollen counter * pollen grain * polleniferous * pollenize, pollenise * pollenlike * pollen mother cell * pollen parent * pollen sac * pollen tube * polleny

    See also

    * palynologic * palynological * palynologist * palynology ----