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Fertilisation

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. Synonyms: fecundation, fertilization, impregnation.

Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure. Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilization.

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"Fertilisation" Quotes from Famous Books

... little book on the 'Fertilisation of Orchids,' which cost me ten months' work, was published: most of the facts had been slowly accumulated during several previous years. During the summer of 1839, and, I believe, during the previous summer, I was led to attend to the cross- fertilisation of flowers by the aid of insects, ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

... any gas containing motes is luminous; (2) that air in which the motes had been destroyed by heat, and any gas so prepared as to exclude motes, are not luminous. All the instances are of gases, and the result is: motes—luminosity; no motes—no luminosity. Darwin, to show that cross-fertilisation is favourable to flowers, placed a net about 100 flower-heads, and left 100 others of the same varieties exposed to the bees: the former bore no seed, the latter nearly 3,000. We must assume that, in Darwin's judgment, the net did not screen the flowers from ...

— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

Words linked to "Fertilisation" : cross-fertilisation, creation, pollination, enrichment, fertilization, top dressing, superfecundation, superfetation, cross-fertilization, self-fertilization, pollenation, conception