fecundate
verb (used with object)
to make prolific or fruitful.
fecundation
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a word derived from
fecundate.
Example Sentences
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Lack of sunshine prevented proper fecundation, resulting in a crop that is little more than half the size of 1977's.
From Time Magazine Archive
This attraction is daily seen in the fecundation of the spawn of fish.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
It is nearly about this time that the sun declining in the horizon recalls the males; queens requiring fecundation never remain later abroad.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
Its extremity never opens, and we never find antherozoids; on the contrary, the antheridium presents, up to the maturity of the oospore, the appearance which it presented at the moment of fecundation.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
It should be remembered, that bees do not form the sole republic among insects presenting a similar phenomenon; female ants are also obliged to leave the ant-hills previous to fecundation.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
