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 Linn?us, 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 pépel? "ashes").
雙語例句
1. As the day goes on, the pollen dries up and becomes hard.
日子一天天過去，花粉干結成了硬塊。
來自柯林斯例句
2. You can buy a formulation containing royal jelly, pollen and vitamin C.
可以買一種含蜂王漿、花粉和維生素C的配方產品。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Avoid trips to the country while the pollen count is high.
花粉計數高時，盡量避免去鄉村旅行。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious.