Thesaurus: fertilization

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1. n. The act or process of rendering fertile.
2. n. 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.
3. n. creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
4. n. making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
5. 1. The act or process of rendering fertile. 2. (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.
6. The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetablegerms; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders theovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants;fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization (Bot.), thefertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of thesame blossom.-- Cross fertilization, fertilization by pollen from some otherblossom. See under Cross, a.
7. n:100 n. creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant n. making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure