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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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
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
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 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
Male, influence of, on the fecundated female, i. 397-406; supposed influence of, on offspring, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
The petals of many flowers expand in the sun, but contract all night, or on the approach of rain; after the seeds are fecundated the petals no longer contract.
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The coincidence of this experiment with the other, proved that the eggs were not externally fecundated.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
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
If the ovum produced is not fecundated, it gradually shrivels up, and passes off through the uterus and the vagina.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
That these historic Resolutions contained the fecundating germs of the Civil War, is by the way.
From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The pistil is much longer than the stamens, hence the flower-stalks have their elegant bend, that the stigma may hang downwards to receive the fecundating dust of the anthers.
From The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin
For the fecundating nuclei are the very spark-essence of the blood.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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
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 Eliza Burt Gamble
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