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What is xenia?

What is xenia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (classical studies) The concept of hospitality to strangers.
  2. (botany) The effect that genes from pollen have on the endosperm.
  3. plural of xenium
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This phenomenon of pollen affecting fruit characteristics has been known as xenia.
Pollen also potentially influences oil content by means of xenia.
Xenia is the effect of pollen on the development and characteristics of the fruits.
In the late afternoon in the library over their teacups the ladies talk of xenia Sabaroff.
Xenia describes any immediate effect a pollen grain has on the germ or endosperm of seed plants.
Taking full advantage of the glut, the flower-like polyps of xenia soft corals pulsated as they fed on the zooplankton delivered by the currents.

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