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/ɪmprˈɛgnˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Impregnation

noun

Material with which something is impregnated.

The process of totally saturating something with a substance. Synonym: saturation. "The saturation of cotton with ether"

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, fertilisation, fertilization.

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... process of sexual selection. The proportions of the skeleton, the distribution of hair and fat, the construction of organs of attack and defense, the color of the skin, the cyclic processes of preparation for impregnation, the oestrus or heat period in animals, the menstrual period in the human being, the psychic reactions to danger and combat have all been thus determined. That man is bearded while woman is not,—that woman has potentially functional breasts while man has not,—the aggressive pugnacity of man contrasted ...

— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

Words linked to "Impregnation" : cross-fertilization, saturation, self-fertilisation, plastination, cross-fertilisation, impregnate, permeation, pollination, pollenation, pervasion, stuff, material, conception, fecundation, fertilisation, creation, superfecundation, superfetation, suffusion, self-fertilization