: to give (a plant) pollen from another plant of the same kind so that seeds will be produced.
(February 2013) The United States Minor Outlying Islands are eight island territories of the United States. They are Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean; and Navassa Island in the Caribbean Sea.
Currently, there are sixteen territories of the United States, five of which are permanently inhabited: Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.embers of Congress from the territories seated as of January 2015 are: Gregorio Sablan for the Northern Mariana Islands; Madeleine Bordallo for Guam; Amata Coleman Radewagen for American Samoa; Pedro Pierluisi for Puerto Rico; and Stacey Plaskett for the U.S. Virgin Islands.