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fertilization
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fertilization has 2 senses
- fertilization(n = noun.event) fecundation, fertilisation, impregnation - creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant; Array is a kind of conception, creation
- fertilization(n = noun.event) dressing, fecundation, fertilisation - making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure; Array is a kind of enrichment
has particulars: pollenation, pollination, cross-fertilisation, cross-fertilization, self-fertilisation, self-fertilization, superfecundation, superfetation
Derived form verb fertilize3
has particulars: top dressing
Derived form verb fertilize1
CIDE DICTIONARY
fertilization, n.
- The act or process of rendering fertile. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fertilization, n. (also -isation)
1 Biol. the fusion of male and female gametes during sexual reproduction to form a zygote.
2 a the act or an instance of fertilizing. b the process of being fertilized.
1 Biol. the fusion of male and female gametes during sexual reproduction to form a zygote.
2 a the act or an instance of fertilizing. b the process of being fertilized.
ROGET THESAURUS
fertilization
Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.Productiveness
N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.
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