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Webster 1913 Edition
Fertilization
Ferˊti-li-za′tion
,Noun.
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
, Adj.