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
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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 Annie Wood Besant
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
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
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 Peter Mark Roget
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
In precisely the same way, the mother wasps and hornets are fecundated.
From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth
The eggs of the trout thus fecundated and deposited in October or November will hatch in the spring.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
The fecundated females, on their part, become breeding machines whose activity is incessant.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
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
Other flowers of the classes of monecia and diecia, 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 Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Myriads of these eggs are accumulated in ponds and rivers; yet in this mass the fecundating principle solely selects and impregnates those that naturally claim its vivifying powers.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Constantly from the palace of the lord of the world, seated on the high hill of heaven, blow four winds, pour four streams, refreshing and fecundating the earth.
From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Daniel Garrison Brinton
In China the dragon, except as noted below, is not a power for evil, but a beneficent being producing rain and representing the fecundating principle in nature.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
It was one of the modifications of sun worship, and was a symbol of the fecundating power of that luminary.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
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