fertilization
fertilization is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Biol.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom. -- Cross fertilization, fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under Cross, a.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aftercrop
- aftergrowth
- aftermath
- and
- arrish
- conceive
- cow
- crop
- eddish
- fecund
- fecundate
- fecundify
- fecundity
- fertile
- fertility
- fertilize
- flowing
- fructification
- fructify
- frugiferous
- fruitful
- generate
- generative
- honey
- hydra
- impregnate
- land
- life-giving
- luxuriance
- luxuriant
- make
- milch
- milk
- multiparous
- multiplication
- multiply
- omnific
- parturient
- plot
- pregnancy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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