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
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
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
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
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 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 primitive lineaments of organization may be traced in the egg, even before it is fecundated.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
This is met with chiefly in the ants, in which each female is generally fecundated successively by several males.
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
This having been done three times, the eggs will be thoroughly fecundated, and are ready to be deposited in the nests for hatching.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
In China the dragon, except as noted below, is not a power for evil, but a beneficent being producing rain and representing the fecundating principle in nature.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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
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 Daniel Garrison Brinton
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 Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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
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