Dust and Pollen

Dust

Dust noun - Discarded or useless material.

Pollen and dust are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pollen" instead a noun "Dust".

Nearby Words: dusty, dusted, dusting, duster

Pollen

Pollen noun - The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant.
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Synonyms for Pollen

Dust and pollen are semantically related. You can use "Dust" instead a noun "Pollen".

Nearby Word: pollinate

Both words in one sentence

  • Men Don't Cry aka: Real Men Dont Cry When he shows Annie where he grew up in Queens, he plays it off as pollen or dust.
  • Kryptonite Is Everywhere And Fractious has OCD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, so she can be stopped by dirt, dust, pollen, mud...
  • Kneel Before Zod In The Batman, Lex Luthor forces Superman to do this by drugging him with a combination of Kryptonite dust and Poison Ivy's mind-control pollen.
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