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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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
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
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
No. Defy the monsters, prod the phoenix, bury pignuts, come forward magical, fecundate freedom, build, levy songs.
From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander
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 Belt, Thomas
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 Huber, François
So the idea of ‘the relative’ has been fecundated in modern times by the influence of the sciences of observation.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
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
The queen bee is not impregnated of herself, but is fecundated by copulation with the male.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
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 Darwin, Charles
He thinks that in some of the manuscripts, as the Codex Borgia, it is represented by the rabbit fecundating the frog.
From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
For the fecundating nuclei are the very spark-essence of the blood.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
The supreme leaders in science, the men whose discoveries have been fecundating and fundamental, seem to be at least seven—Euclid, Archimedes, Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, Lavoisier, and Darwin.
From Inquiries and Opinions by Matthews, Brander
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 Darwin, Erasmus
Turpin* published a memoir on the organ, by which the fecundating fluid is introduced into the vegetable ovulum.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker
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