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Fertilization

Fertilization Meaning & Definition
Fertilization Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fertilization?

[n] making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fertilization: dressing | fecundation | fertilisation | impregnation

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fertilization:

See Also | conception | creation | cross-fertilisation | cross-fertilization | enrichment | pollenation | pollination | self-fertilisation | self-fertilization | superfecundation | superfetation | top dressing

Fertilization In Webster's Dictionary

\Fer`ti*li*za"tion\, n. 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.

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