Pollen vs Another - What's the difference?
pollen | another |
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]
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.)
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As a noun pollen
is .As a determiner another is
one more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.pollen
English
(wikipedia pollen)Noun
(en-noun)- (Bailey)
Katrina G. Claw
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.}}
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 * pollenySee also
* palynologic * palynological * palynologist * palynology ----another
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Alternative forms
* anoda (Jamaican English) * anotha, anotha' (AAVE- eye dialect)Determiner
(head)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
Katrina G. Claw
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.}}
