cross-fertilization
Biology. the fertilization of an organism by the fusion of an egg from one individual with a sperm or male gamete from a different individual.
Botany. fertilization of the flower of one plant by a gamete from the flower of a closely related plant (opposed to self-fertilization).
(not in technical use) cross-pollination.
interaction or interchange, as between two or more cultures, fields of activity or knowledge, or the like, that is mutually beneficial and productive: a cross-fertilization of scientific and technical disciplines.
Origin of cross-fertilization
1Words Nearby cross-fertilization
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How to use cross-fertilization in a sentence
But the cross-fertilization of advertising and art also worked the other way.
Charles Saatchi: From Saatchi & Saatchi to Allegedly Choking Nigella Lawson | Peter Jukes | June 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAs you watch, any feeling of there being some mystery about cross fertilization will be dispelled.
Book of Monsters | David Fairchild and Marian Hubbard (Bell) FairchildDr. Gray thought it very likely there would; for, when cross-fertilization is not effected, self-fertilization often takes place.
I think the evidence of the self-fertilization is far clearer than that of the cross-fertilization.
Please take the trouble to read on perforation of the corolla by Bees, p. 425 of my 'cross-fertilization,' to end of chapter.
Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume II (of 3) | George John Romanes
He takes native plants and by selection and cross-fertilization improves them.
Reconstruction in Philosophy | John Dewey
British Dictionary definitions for cross-fertilization
fertilization by the fusion of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species: Compare self-fertilization
Derived forms of cross-fertilization
- cross-fertile, adjective
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Scientific definitions for cross-fertilization
The fertilization that occurs when the nucleus of a male sex cell from one individual joins with the nucleus of a female sex cell from another individual. In plants, cross-pollination is an example of cross-fertilization. Also called allogamy Compare self-fertilization.
Other words from cross-fertilization
- cross-fertilize verb
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Cultural definitions for cross-fertilization
The fertilization of the ovum of one plant by the sperm of another plant.
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