Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pollen

1 sense of pollen

Sense 1
pollen -- (the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant)
       => spore -- (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes")