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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No. Defy the monsters, prod the phoenix, bury pignuts, come forward magical, fecundate freedom, build, levy songs.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
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
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
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
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
The second treatment is necessary to kill the few parasites which sometimes escape at the first treatment, either in the egg stage or as fecundated females.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
The vesicle which acts as heart and stomach serves also as the reproductive cavity, but how or by what means it is fecundated would be difficult to determine.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock
The first requisite is suitable water for hatching eggs that have been artificially fecundated, and for the occupancy of fish of different ages, and for different species of fish.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
At once father, mother, and son, he fecundated, conceived, produced, and was.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus
This observation proved that virgin queens engage in single combats; but we wished to discover whether those fecundated, and mothers, had the same animosity.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
Heaven, as the fecundating principle, was male, and the source of fire; the earth, as the fecundated, was female, and the source of humidity.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
Blessed fecundating suggestion, that was the earliest loophole!
From The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne by Richard Le Gallienne
Visions crossed his mind, born in the soft warm air of these fecundating winds, of this strange yet peaceful scene.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
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
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
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