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Fecundate
Fec′un-date
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fecundated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fecundating
.] 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 stigmaWebster 1828 Edition
Fecundate
FE'CUNDATE
, v.t.1.
To make fruitful or prolific.2.
To impregnate; as, the pollen of flowers fecundates the stigma.Definition 2024
fecundate
fecundate
English
Verb
fecundate (third-person singular simple present fecundates, present participle fecundating, simple past and past participle fecundated)
- To make fertile.
- To inseminate.
- 1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms [...], London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, OCLC 243495533, page 210:
- The pollen of plants is the fecundating power, and consists of a number of small sacs, invisible to the naked eye, in which a fluid exists, which is analogous to the spermatic fluid in man and animals.
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Translations
to make fertile