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Re: Pollenation, pollenization

On 3/4/02 12:06 PM, "Nan Sterman" <nsterman@plantsoup.com> wrote:

> Can someone please tell me the difference beween pollenation and
> pollenization?

Correct spellings: pollination and pollinization.  I could not find the
latter term in any botany book glossary or biological dictionary, at least
not those available to me here in the office and the department.

However, a web search revealed that "pollinization" is used in horticulture,
sometimes to mean the same thing as "pollination," but in other cases to
refer specifically to the act of an insect or another animal carrying pollen
between flowers.

The immediate reaction of 2 botanists here was the same as mine:
"pollinization" is not a word.  But evidently it is a word, though not the
one favored by usage.

For the record, pollination refers to the placing of pollen on the stigma by
any means whatsoever.

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