Word: pollenating
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Every well-instructed child eventually learns about the bees and the flowers.* Like busy cupids, bees fly from flower to flower, carrying pollen from the anthers" (male organs) and dusting it on the pistils (female organs). In a state of nature, this relatively simple service is all the outside help that flowers require for reproduction of their kind...
...Patient. With crushed flowers, powdered rock, pollen, charcoal and corn meal, the Navajos invented a highly abstract way of picturing their even more abstract ideas of the forces that move nature. Their paintings, which their underprivileged, impoverished descendants (TIME, Nov. 3) still produce in quantity, have nothing to do with art as civilization knows it. They are not merely for art's sake, like most modern painting, nor are they done in a spirit of reverence, like early Greek and early Renaissance art; and they seldom vary with the individual artists-who are always medicine men. Navajo sand paintings...
...knows the signs. When a foraging worker returns to the hive laden with pollen or nectar, she executes a stylized dance proclaiming her success. Fellow workers, by smelling the dancing bee, can tell at once what kind of flower she has been playing around with. Off they zoom hopefully, searching for like-smelling flowers...
...This is no innocuous bit of pollen wafted idly on the currents of international thought. It is a seed already planted in many minds. OWI is as forbidden to speak lightly of Hirohito as it is to call Victor Emmanuel a 'moronic little king...
...wind-making machine to produce the proper breezes for wafting pollen in nut-tree groves...