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Re: Pollenation, pollenization

I've seen beekeepers use "pollinize" for pollination, and that word is in 
my unabridged, but I'm not familiar with pollinization. Seems to me its a 
self-redundant word.  Margaret Lauterbach


> > 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.
>
>Bill Shear
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