• POLLINATION (noun). The noun POLLINATION has 1 sense: 1. transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant. Familiarity information: POLLINATION used as a noun is very rare.ypernyms (pollination is a kind of...): fecundation; fertilisation; fertilization; impregnation (creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant).