pollinium

From pollen +‎ -ium (“mass”).

pollinium (plural pollinia)

1. (palynology) A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids, which is dispersed as a single unit during pollination.

• polyad (any group of more than four pollen grains)

• pollinial
• polliniate

• pollinarium

• pollinium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “pollinium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /polˈli.ni.um/, [pɔlˈlʲɪniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /polˈli.ni.um/, [polˈliːnium]

pollinium n (genitive polliniī or pollinī); second declension

1. (New Latin) pollinium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).