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To make fruitful or prolific.

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  1. v. t. To make fruitful or prolific.
  2. v. t. To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.
  3. v. make fertile or productive
  4. v. introduce semen into (a female)
  5. 1. To make fruitful or prolific. W. Montagu. 2. (Biol.) To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.
  6. To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowersthe pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.
  7. v make fertile or productive v introduce semen into (a female)