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Pollen 无 Flour Pɔlin N.花粉 N Botanical Term

单词 pollen
音标 ['pɔlin]
解释 n.花粉
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字源 pollen (n.)
1760 as a botanical term for the fertilizing element of flowers (from Linnæus, 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 pépelŭ "ashes").
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趣味全助记 【记】pollute 污染,花粉到处漂造成污染,外国很多人花粉过敏,身上长豆或肿起来

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