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Definition of Fecundation
1. Noun. Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant.
Generic synonyms: Conception, Creation
Specialized synonyms: Pollenation, Pollination, Cross-fertilisation, Cross-fertilization, Self-fertilisation, Self-fertilization, Superfecundation, Superfetation
Derivative terms: Fecundate, Fertilize, Impregnate, Impregnate
2. Noun. Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure.
Generic synonyms: Enrichment
Specialized synonyms: Top Dressing
Derivative terms: Fecundate, Fertilize
Definition of Fecundation
1. n. The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.
Definition of Fecundation
1. Noun. The process whereby a new organism is produced by fertilization ¹
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Definition of Fecundation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Fecundation
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fecundation
Literary usage of Fecundation
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)
"... from having detected a colorless corpuscle like one of the spermatozoids inside
of the membrane. Next Pringsheim demonstrated a similar fecundation in ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"PART V.—ON fecundation, RESPIRATION, AND THE GREEN GLAND. According to the degree of
... fecundation, then, is accomplished in this chamber—that is to say, ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"In this chamber are enclosed the ovary and the organs of fecundation. ...
Phenomena of fecundation.—The phenomena of fecundation occur when the organs of ..."
4. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"OP fecundation. THE discovery of the male and female organs in plants opened a
... Until of late years, the mechanism of fecundation in plants was as little ..."
5. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by Taylor and Francis, William Jardine (1854)
"On the natural and artificial fecundation ... He has also obtained two new hybrid
plants,—one by the fecundation of JE. ovata by Triticum spelta, ..."
6. Obstetrics: The Science and the Art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1856)
"Writers of a late period have persisted in believing that the discharge of the
ovum is due only to an act of impregnation or fecundation ; but the modern ..."
7. The Vegetable World: Being a History of Plants, with Their Botanical by Louis Figuier (1869)
"fecundation GERMINATION. THE consideration we have given to the subject of the
... the influence of the stamens on the pistil, or fecundation in plants; ..."
8. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Austin Flint (1888)
"As the result of his own and of other recorded observations, Dieu concluded that
the power of fecundation often persists for a considerable time after ..."
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