Definition of Self-fertilized

1. Adjective. Fertilized by its own pollen.


Medical Definition of Self-fertilized

1. Fertilized by pollen from the same flower. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-fertilized

self-evident truth
self-evidently
self-examination
self-examining
self-excitation
self-existence
self-existent
self-explanatory
self-expression
self-feeder
self-feeling
self-fertile
self-fertilisation
self-fertilised
self-fertilization
self-fertilized (current term)
self-flagellation
self-flattery
self-forgetful
self-fulfilling
self-fulfilling prophecies
self-fulfilling prophecy
self-fulfillment
self-generated
self-giving
self-governing
self-government
self-gratification
self-harm
self-harmer

Literary usage of Self-fertilized

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Diagram showing the mean heights of cross- and self-fertilized plants of ... His general plan of experimenting was to grow cross- and self-fertilized seed ..."

2. Annals of Botany by IDEAL (Project) (1888)
"The two self-fertilized capitula contained between them 69 seeds and 42 ... The self-fertilized seeds germinated slightly before the cross-fertilized ones. ..."

3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1898)
"Ten flowers of one of these plants growing in a green house were self-fertilized and ten other flowers of the same plant were crossed or fertilized with ..."

4. Physiological Botany: I. Outlines of the Histology of Phaenogamous Plants by George Lincoln Goodale (1885)
"So did all the plants, without any exception, in the three succeeding generations of self-fertilized plants; and very many were raised on account of other ..."

5. Physiological Botany by George Lincoln ( Goodale (1890)
"All the self-fertilized plants of the seventh generation, and I believe of one or two previous generations, produced flowers of ..."

6. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1885)
"All the self-fertilized plants of the seventh generation, and I believe of one ... In the sixth self-fertilized generation there appeared a plant which was ..."

7. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"CHAPTER IX SOME RESULTS OF SELECTION WITH SELF- FERTILIZED CROPS In its broadest sense, selection is really at the basis of all animal or plant improvement ..."

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