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Six example sentences with pollen, each labelled with its topic.
Every April her eyes swell shut because pollen from the birches drifts through the open windows of the apartment.
Medicine
A macro lens caught the yellow pollen clinging to the bee's legs as it backed out of the blossom.
Photography
Orchard yields collapsed the year cold rain kept bees indoors and almost no pollen reached the waiting blossoms.
Environment
Under the microscope each pollen grain has a distinctive surface, so botanists can identify the plant from a single speck.
Science
A pinch of fennel pollen over roasted pork adds a sweet anise note that costs more per gram than saffron.
Cooking
Pollen preserved in peat bogs tells historians which crops medieval farmers grew and when the forests were cleared.
History
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