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 Sarah Bernhardt
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
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
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
Though he might be satisfied of no large drone being there, still a small one might have escaped his vigilance, and fecundated the queen.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
It shows the position of an ovule which has just been discharged lying in the opening of the right tube, and that of another ovary fecundated and surrounded by the decidual membrane.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
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
In the first chapter we have spoken of the changes undergone by the fecundated ovule till it becomes the embryo and then the infant.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
Some patients imagine themselves pregnant and pretend that they were fecundated secretly.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
Poll′en-tube, the tube by which the fecundating element is conveyed to the ovule.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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 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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
For the fecundating nuclei are the very spark-essence of the blood.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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