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
Malpighi and his school contended that the perfect animal is already “preformed” in the germ; for example, the hen’s egg, before fecundation, containing an excessively minute, but complete, chick.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
Morton, Lord, effect of fecundation by a quagga on an Arab mare, i. 403-404.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
It is remarkable that amongst these fungi the tube projected by the antheridium effects fecundation only by contact.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
However, forty-six hours elapse after fecundation before they begin to lay.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
