VERB
- introduce semen into (a female)
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make fertile or productive
The course fertilized her imagination
How To Use fecundate In A Sentence
- I've met catenate, hyaline, and fecundate, just not often. Making Light: Open thread 136
- The Arabs of Madînah used to fecundate their palm-trees in order to make them more fruitful.
- By 1784 he was describing in plaintive terms how the English were constantly making new discoveries: ‘The whole of nature is unceasingly studied, requested, worked upon, fecundated, husbanded.’
- This might happen (1) by the fecundated ova passing, in the course of their development, under particular circumstances, into higher forms; (2) by the primitive and later organisms producing other organisms without fecundation, out of germs or eggs Essays
- They used to fecundate their palm-trees in order to make them more fruitful.
- Heaven, as the fecundating principle, was male, and the source of fire; the earth, as the fecundated, was female, and the source of humidity. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
- This might happen (1) by the fecundated ova passing, in the course of their development, under particular circumstances, into higher forms; (2) by the primitive and later organisms producing other organisms without fecundation, out of germs or eggs Essays
- Are not the seed of vegetables, and the eggs of oviparous animals fecundated, or influenced with the vivific principle of life, through the aproximation and intimacy of the sexes, and immediately after the eggs and seeds are hatched, the young larva and infant plant, by heat and moisture, rises into existence, increases, and in due time arrives to a state of perfect maturity. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
- All the stories of supernatural births recorded in the Classics, where women were specially fecundated by the Spirit of Heaven, are inventions (p. 48). Lunheng
- There were no insects to fecundate flowering plants; the imported fruit trees were all hand-fertilized. THE DISPOSSESSED