cross-fertilize
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James Huckenpahler’s digital prints cross-fertilize portraits from the Brady-Handy collection of Civil War-era photography with images from the artist’s computer.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018
But the line behind her, filled with a generation of comics who’ve managed to cross-fertilize standup and with a contemporary, queer sensibility, is growing rapidly, and comedy’s evolving apparatus can barely keep pace.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2018
The practical benefit is that the multiple projects cross-fertilize each other.
From Time • Oct. 6, 2016
If other barnacles also use ocean currents to cross-fertilize, scientists may have to rework their population models, he says.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 16, 2013
As the blossoms mature their stigmas in the first stage and the anthers in the second, it follows the beetles must regularly cross-fertilize them as they fly from one shelter to another.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje
