pollen: [16] Pollen originally meant ‘flour’ in English. Not until the 18th century was it taken up as a botanical term. It was borrowed from Latin pollen ‘powder, dust, flour’, a relative of pulvis ‘dust’ (source of English powder and pulverize) and polenta ‘pearl barley’ (source of English polenta [16]). => polenta, powder, pulverize
pollen (n.)
1760 as a botanical term for the fertilizing element of flowers (from Linnæus, 1751), earlier "fine flour" (1520s), from Latin pollen "mill dust; fine flour," related to polenta "peeled barley," and pulvis (genitive pulveris) "dust," from PIE root *pel- (1) "dust; flour" (cognates: Greek poltos "pap, porridge," Sanskrit pálalam "ground seeds," Lithuanian pelenai, Old Church Slavonic popelu, Russian pépelŭ "ashes").
双语例句
1. As the day goes on, the pollen dries up and becomes hard.
日子一天天过去，花粉干结成了硬块。
来自柯林斯例句
2. You can buy a formulation containing royal jelly, pollen and vitamin C.
可以买一种含蜂王浆、花粉和维生素C的配方产品。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Avoid trips to the country while the pollen count is high.
花粉计数高时，尽量避免去乡村旅行。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious.