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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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 Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir
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 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
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 Bernhardt, Sarah
The Lusatian observers, and M. Hattorf in particular, thought the queen was fecundated by herself, without concourse with the males.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
The manner in which the egg when fecundated, either in the mother's body or after being laid, continues its development, varies enormously in different species.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
Moreover, there are women who never menstruate and who, in spite of this, not only regularly discharge ovules but may be fecundated and become pregnant.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
Only fecundated females feed on blood, and must be fertilized after each batch of eggs.
From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur
If the fecundated ovum is blocked or held in the Fallopian tube, the embryo grows where the ovum stops, and we have a case of Ectopic Gestation.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
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 Barrington, Mrs. Russell
Not only did this emblem represent fertility, or the fecundating energies of Nature, but with the power to create were combined or correlated all the mental qualities and attributes of the two sexes.
From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Gamble, Eliza Burt
It is a porous tufa adapted, presumably, for sheltering and fecundating vegetable spores.
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
In some countries only the fecundating pollen is scattered over the female flower, and this doubtless must have been Nature's method of impregnating the date.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
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