# pollinivore
## English
### Etymology

From pollen +‎ -i- +‎ -vore.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɒˈlɪnɪvɔː(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /pɑˈlɪnəvɔːɹ/
* Hyphenation: pol‧lin‧i‧vore

### Noun

pollinivore (plural pollinivores)
* (zoology) An animal that feeds on pollen; a palynivore.
** 1997 May, Valentin A. Krassilov, “Environments”, in S. Golovach, L. Penev, editors, Angiosperm Origins: Morphological and Ecological Aspects, Sofia, Bulgaria: Pensoft Publishers, →ISBN, image caption, page 116:Vittatina-type pollen grain from the gut of another pollinivore, Sojanidelia floralis Rasn., from the same locality, x1 200.
** 1999, Ecology Abstracts, volume 25, Bethesda, Md.: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 107:Insects visiting flowers of H. spinosa can be divided into two guilds: nectarivores (small flies and ants) and pollinivores (bees and hoverflies), which differ in pollination attributes.
** 2006, V. V. Zherikhin, “General Features of Insect History. Ecological History of Terrestrial Insects.”, in Alexandr P[avlovich] Rasnitsyn, Donald L. J. Quicke, editors, History of Insects, New York, N.Y.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 353, column 1:Adult pollen feeding is also highly probable for a number of Mesozoic polyphagan beetles (e.g., elaterids, buprestids, some cleroids) and some cupedoid archostematans. Thus by the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous the pollinivore guild was probably rich and diverse.
** 2014, Gerardo Ceballos, Joaquín Arroyo Cabrales, David Vasquez, “Order Chiroptera”, in Gerardo Ceballos, editor, Mammals of Mexico, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 667:Bats have a wide range of eating habits. There are species that feed on insects (insectivores), fruits (frugivores), vertebrates (carnivores), pollen and nectar (pollinivores/nectar-feeding), and blood (hematophages).
** 2015, Mazi Sanda, “Foraging and Pollination Behaviour of Apis mellifera adansonii Latreille (Hymenoptera, Apidae) on Gossypium hirsutum L. (Malvaceae) Flowers at Dang (Naoundere, Cameroon)”, in Michel Fok, Ousmane Ndoye, Siaka Koné, editors, AGRAR-2013: 1st Conference of African Research on Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition. Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, June 4–6, 2013. Agriculture and the Challenges of Food and Nutrition in Africa: The Contributions of Research in the Cotton Zone = AGRAR-2013 : 1re conférence de la recherche africaine sur l'agriculture, l'alimentation et la nutrition. Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, 4–6 juin 2013. L'agriculture face aux défis de l'alimentation et de la nutrition en Afrique : quels apports de la recherche dans les pays cotonniers, Gembloux, Belgium: Les Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, →ISBN, page 164:During the same time that A[pis] m[ellifera] adansonii encounters on flowers were registered, we noted the type of floral products collected by this bee. This parameter was measured to determine if A. m. adansonii is strictly a pollinivore, nectarivore or pollinivore and nectarivore. This could give us an idea of its implication as a cross-pollinator of G[ossypium] hirsutum.

#### Synonyms

* palynivore

#### Related terms

* pollinivorous
* pollinivory

### See also

* nectarivore