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Definition of Cross-fertilization

1. Noun. Fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species.

2. Noun. Interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial. "The cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts"

Definition of Cross-fertilization

1. Noun. Fertilization by the union of gametes of different plants (sometimes of different species). ¹

2. Noun. (by extension) The mutual exchange of ideas or concepts from different fields for mutual benefit. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross-fertilization

cross-cultural comparison cross-cultural psychiatry cross-cut bur cross-division cross-dressers cross-examination cross-examine cross-examiner cross-eye cross-eyed

cross-fertilisation cross-fertilise cross-fertilization (current term) cross-fertilize cross-file cross-foster cross-fostered cross-fostering cross-fosters cross-garnet

cross-garnets cross-grained cross-hatch cross-hatched cross-hatches cross-hatching cross-hybridisation

Literary usage of Cross-fertilization

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

1. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"DARWIN, in the title of his new work,1 refers only incidentally to adaptations for cross-fertilization, — a subject which has given origin to a copious ..."

2. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"Cross Fertilization is naturally provided for in dioecious plants (249), ... Cross fertilization depends upon the transportation of pollen ; and the two ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"Getting right on the record [cross-fertilization hostile to variation] (Corr.). T: Mee- han, 10 : 102. Heliotropism ; the turning motions of plants (9 p.). ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"cross-fertilization between different flowers on the same plant usually has no appreciable advantage. The probable reason for this is that the plant ..."

5. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"... sketch of the various very interesting modes of cross-fertilization in the ... describes the peculiar arrangements for cross-fertilization in Eremurus ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1877)
"Os SELF-FERTILIZATION AND CROSS FERTILIZATION IN FLOWERS. ... That cross fertilization by insect agency does not exist to the extent claimed for it. 2d. ..."

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