- (n.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; especially, the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
- (n.) The act or process of rendering fertile.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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