Pollen placement specialists

**"* L* B* <S*@cox.net>**

I have a terminology question. Bear with me...
Correct spelling: pollen. Yet: pollinize, pollinate, pollination (the "e"
becomes "i").
Is a bee, then, a pollenator, pollinator, pollenizer or pollinizer? (The
"Gardener's Dictionary of Horticultural Terms" is no help, in fact---unless
I'm imagining it---avoids going there.)
Is pollenization/pollinization (further complicated by cross-pollenization)
ever OK? 
Even when sanctioned by marriage?
This seems incontroverable: A "pollenator" is a device that crushes herbs
and seeds into powder. Per the Internet, "Get all the goodness out of your
herbs with a pollenator from Shiva Head Shop..." 
Who knew marijuana can be both pollinized and pollenized? As can tobacco,
rosemary...any herb, evidently.
But, bees. How should I refer to the little buggers?

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Debra Lee Baldwin
Garden Photojournalist
Author, Designing with Succulents (Timber Press, 2007)
Succulent Container Gardens (Spring, 2010)
www.debraleebaldwin.com <http://www.debraleebaldwin.com/> 
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