fertilization

About 2.91 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act or process of rendering fertile.
2. noun The act of fecundating or impregnating the gametes of animals, plants, etc.; including the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, an analogous process in flowerless plants, or the joining of sperm and egg in animals.
3. noun The act of applying fertilizer to soil.

Similar words

fecundation fertilisation impregnation dressing insemination fertility fecundity conception pregnancy cross-fertilization

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Word family

fertilizations