The New Student's Reference Work/Pollinium

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Pollin′ium (in plants).  In certain families, notably the milkweed and orchid families, all of the pollen-grains formed within a pollen-sac stick together in a mass which is removed bodily by insects.  These masses of sticky pollen are pollinia.