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
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of fecundate
1625–35; < Latin fēcundātus made fruitful, fertilized (past participle of fēcundāre ). See fecund, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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The sun is the agent of the generative power of the sky, and his beams fecundate the earth, so that from her all life is produced.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Besant, Annie Wood
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 Cousin, Victor
And it is an ascertained fact, that wheat will not fecundate at all in a temperature which does not exceed 45°, accompanied with a gloomy atmosphere.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
V. make productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative†, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify†; teem, multiply; produce &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
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 Eggleston, George Cary
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