Nectar vs. Pollen — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Nectar and Pollen
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Nectar
Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries or nectarines, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide herbivore protection. Common nectar-consuming pollinators include mosquitoes, hoverflies, wasps, bees, butterflies and moths, hummingbirds, honeyeaters and bats.
Pollen
Pollen is a powdery substance consisting of pollen grains which are male microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce male gametes (sperm cells). Pollen grains have a hard coat made of sporopollenin that protects the gametophytes during the process of their movement from the stamens to the pistil of flowering plants, or from the male cone to the female cone of coniferous plants.
Nectar
A sweet liquid that many plants secrete from specialized structures, often inside flowers, where it serves to attract pollinators such as certain insects and birds. Bees use nectar to make honey.
Pollen
The fine powderlike material whose individual grains contain the male reproductive cells of seed plants. Pollen is produced in the anther in angiosperms and in the male cone in gymnosperms.
Nectar
Greek & Roman Mythology The drink of the gods.
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Pollen
A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
Nectar
A beverage containing fruit juice or purée.
Pollen
(botany) Pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants.
Nectar
A delicious or invigorating drink.
Pollen
(obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour.
Nectar
The drink of the gods.
Pollen
To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
Nectar
(by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
Pollen
Fine bran or flour.
Nectar
(botany) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.
Pollen
The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament.
Nectar
(intransitive) To feed on nectar.
Pollen
The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant
Nectar
The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
Nectar
A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
Nectar
A sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators
Nectar
Fruit juice especially when undiluted
Nectar
(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
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