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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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
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
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 Sir J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine
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
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
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
The eggs of the trout thus fecundated and deposited in October or November will hatch in the spring.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
The first requisite is suitable water for hatching eggs that have been artificially fecundated, and for the occupancy of fish of different ages, and for different species of fish.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
The object of this is, no doubt, to prepare the mucous membrane of the womb for the fixation of the fecundated egg which will become grafted on its surface.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
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
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
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
Pollen, pol′en, n. the fertilising powder contained in the anthers of flowers: the male or fecundating element in flowers.—v.t. to cover with pollen.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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
It is a porous tufa adapted, presumably, for sheltering and fecundating vegetable spores.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
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