‖ pollinarium Bot.
(pɒlɪˈnɛərɪəm)
Pl. -ia.
[mod.L., f. as next, after ovarium ovary, etc.]
a. In phanerogams, = pollinium. b. In cryptogams, = cystidium 2.
| 1881 Bentham in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 301 His representation of the pollinarium of Monomeria. 1895 Syd. Soc. Lex., Pollinarium, one of the organs of which several are present on the hymenium of certain Fungi, and which some observers consider to be male organs. |