fecundate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make prolific or fruitful.
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Biology. to impregnate or fertilize.
verb
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to make fruitful
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to fertilize; impregnate
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Etymology
Origin of fecundate
1625–35; < Latin fēcundātus made fruitful, fertilized (past participle of fēcundāre ). See fecund, -ate 1
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Every human being has a moment when his heart is easily touched, when the tears of grief will flow; and those tears may fecundate a generous thought which might lead to repentance.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
May, the month dear to poets, is frequently but an uninterrupted succession of showers to fecundate the earth; its symbol, an array of outspread umbrellas in our streets.
From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Sir J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine
His mind had one notable quality in common with Emerson's—the capacity to fecundate every other mind with which it came into close contact.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston
And then, if the religious sentiment is weakened, are there not other sentiments that can make the heart of man beat, and fecundate genius?
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
Whilst the bird is probing the flower, the pollen of the stamens is rubbed in to the lower part of its head, and thus carried from one flower to fecundate another.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt
She departed, rose high in the air, was fecundated, and returned.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
Though he might be satisfied of no large drone being there, still a small one might have escaped his vigilance, and fecundated the queen.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
It was a fortunate idea, that she left the hive to be fecundated, and your method of ascertaining the fact was extremely judicious and well adapted to the object in view.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
This is met with chiefly in the ants, in which each female is generally fecundated successively by several males.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
How is the extremely complex human body with its various physical characteristics built up from the nucleus of a fecundated cell, the ovum?
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
We look upon him as one of the few men of genius whom our age has produced, and there needs no better proof of it than his masculine faculty of fecundating other minds.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various
Pollen, pol′en, n. the fertilising powder contained in the anthers of flowers: the male or fecundating element in flowers.—v.t. to cover with pollen.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Other flowers of the classes of monœcia and diœcia, and polygamia discharge the fecundating farina, which, floating in the air, is carried to the stigma of the female flowers, and that at considerable distances.
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler
In a lateral chamber of the temple, on the ceiling, is a most striking mystical design, representing the firmament and the sun fecundating the land of Egypt.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
But that half is excellent, keen, jolly, temperate; and because of that temperance—the most stimulating and fecundating of qualities—the humour of it has set the literature of a hemisphere to the tune of mirth.
From The Rhythm of Life by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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