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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.
Definition 2024
fertilization
fertilization
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Noun
fertilization (countable and uncountable, plural fertilizations)
- The act or process of rendering fertile.
- The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable gametes; especially, the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
- 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
- In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
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act of rendering fertile
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act of fecundating
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