English
pollinigerous
Pollinigerous comes from Latin pollen ‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpollenas pollen, oblique stem‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’
- Englishtodaypollinigerous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpollenas pollen, oblique stem‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’
- Englishtodaypollinigerous
Formed from -i- + -gerous
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘flour, dust’
film, felt, simple, simply, push, filter, complain, pulse, powder, fold, repeal, pillow, flaw, palate, compulsive, expel, repel, palpable, palatable, palladium, propel, pelt, pall, peloton, wallow, tuple, palatal, polemic, muffle, peplum, palp, apoplexy, pulver, pillion, interpolate, 63 more
through Latin pollen ‘flour, especially fine flour, milldust’
Today it means
adj Bearing or producing pollen.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pollen / pollinigerous