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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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 Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir
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
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
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 Besant, Annie Wood
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
How is the extremely complex human body with its various physical characteristics built up from the nucleus of a fecundated cell, the ovum?
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
In precisely the same way, the mother wasps and hornets are fecundated.
From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)
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
If the ovum produced is not fecundated, it gradually shrivels up, and passes off through the uterus and the vagina.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
This is the life into which the slime of the Keateses and Shelleys of former times has fecundated!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
Other flowers of the classes of monecia and diecia, and polygamia, discharge the fecundating farina, which floating in the air is carried to the stigma of the female flowers, and that at considerable distances.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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 Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
There is a fecundating power in them which generates thought, and it is in the moral nature that this force is most apparent.
From Beethoven by Fischer, George Alexander
That these historic Resolutions contained the fecundating germs of the Civil War, is by the way.
From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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