Re: Pollen placement specialists

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I'd say a bee is a "pollinator."
Carolyn Ulrich

On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Debra Lee Baldwin wrote:

> 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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