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Fecundation

noun
1.
Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant.  Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation.
2.
Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure.  Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization.



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"Fecundation" Quotes from Famous Books



... .Now you shall hear what I know of the "Hebammen Krote." How the fecundation takes place I know not, but it must needs be the same as in other kinds of the related Bombinator; igneus throws out almost as many eggs hanging together in clusters as obstetricans; fuscus throws them out from itself in strings (see Roseld's illustration). . .I have now carefully ...
— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz

... foundation for the appreciation of beauty—for beauty is inward, not outward—we find ourselves hastening from land to land, gathering mere curious resemblances which, like unassimilated property, possess no power of fecundation. With what pathetic diligence we collect peaks and passes in Switzerland; how we come laden ...
— Adventures In Friendship • David Grayson



Words linked to "Fecundation" :   fecundate, pollination, pollenation, cross-fertilisation, self-fertilisation, creation, cross-fertilization, conception, self-fertilization, top dressing, fertilization, superfetation, enrichment



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