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Word: pollenating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...females work themselves to death, wearing their wings to rags on trips to & from flowers. The only pleasure they seem to get is when, as young adults, they care for the baby bees, nursing them tenderly and feeding them golden pollen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Unhappy Bee | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...plant produces no pollen on its tassel. In order that only the desired pollen will father a new hybrid type, growers have always had to remove by hand the pollen bearing tassels in alternate plots of corn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Hybrid Slashes Cost of Seed Corn | 1/28/1950 | See Source »

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