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
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
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
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 Roget, Peter Mark
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 Eggleston, George Cary
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 Forel, Auguste
The eggs of the trout thus fecundated and deposited in October or November will hatch in the spring.
From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.
An egg fecundated and fixed in this way may keep its position and grow during the first weeks of pregnancy, by the aid of villosities covering its envelope which penetrate the wall of the womb.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
It was a fortunate idea, that she left the hive to be fecundated, and your method of ascertaining the fact was extremely judicious and well adapted to the object in view.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
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 Forel, Auguste
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
Heaven, as the fecundating principle, was male, and the source of fire; the earth, as the fecundated, was female, and the source of humidity.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.
We look upon him as one of the few men of genius whom our age has produced, and there needs no better proof of it than his masculine faculty of fecundating other minds.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various
It was one of the modifications of sun worship, and was a symbol of the fecundating power of that luminary.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.
Blessed fecundating suggestion, that was the earliest loophole!
From The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne by Le Gallienne, Richard
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