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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My guy, read your own link. Those are tri celled organisms, wikipedia even drew you a pretty colorful picture.

Just because the mediocre website used the word powdery doesnt make the living organisms a powder.

If I describe a leaf as feeling leathery, that does not make the leaf leather.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you think that part of the definition of living organism is that it can’t be a powder? Also, do you think sperm are living organisms?

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 9 months ago

Pollen isnt sperm. Pollen is the heavily regressed secondary generation. All plants follow alternate generations.

Pollen is the male semiclonal offspring of a dominant angiosperm form. The female lives within the heart of flowers, where they wait for pollen males to arrive and enseminate them.

And, yes, the definition of powder is a dry solid that sheers into fine particles. Pollen isnt a dry solid, its a bunch of organisms that are just very small. You could turn pollen into powder by killing, crushing, and drying it. But thats the same as sawdust.