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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

polinizador

Pronunciation / Transliteration: polinizador

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pollinator/ˈpɒl.ɪ.neɪ.tər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O morcego é um importante polinizador de plantas noturnas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    An animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower, facilitating fertilization.

    "Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds act as essential pollinators for many agricultural crops."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin 'pollinatus', past participle of 'pollinare' (to besprinkle with fine flour or pollen), originating from 'pollen' (fine flour, fine dust). The noun agent suffix '-or' was added in modern English biology to designate an organism that performs the action of pollinating.

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