fecundate
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May, the month dear to poets, is frequently but an uninterrupted succession of showers to fecundate the earth; its symbol, an array of outspread umbrellas in our streets.
From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Sir J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine
V. make productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative†, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify†; teem, multiply; produce &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Every human being has a moment when his heart is easily touched, when the tears of grief will flow; and those tears may fecundate a generous thought which might lead to repentance.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
Whilst the bird is probing the flower, the pollen of the stamens is rubbed in to the lower part of its head, and thus carried from one flower to fecundate another.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt
No. Defy the monsters, prod the phoenix, bury pignuts, come forward magical, fecundate freedom, build, levy songs.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
Some patients imagine themselves pregnant and pretend that they were fecundated secretly.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
The eggs of the trout thus fecundated and deposited in October or November will hatch in the spring.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
The queen bee is not impregnated of herself, but is fecundated by copulation with the male.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
The Lusatian observers, and M. Hattorf in particular, thought the queen was fecundated by herself, without concourse with the males.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
Though he might be satisfied of no large drone being there, still a small one might have escaped his vigilance, and fecundated the queen.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
Grew, and then Vaillant had just demonstrated the sexual system and described the fecundating of plants; Linnaeus invents botanical nomenclature and the first complete classifications; the Jussieus discover the subordination of characteristics and natural classification.
From The Ancient Regime by John Durand
Blessed fecundating suggestion, that was the earliest loophole!
From The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne by Richard Le Gallienne
They usually consist of a filament and an anther, the anther being the essential part in which the pollen, or fecundating dust, is formed.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
He thinks that in some of the manuscripts, as the Codex Borgia, it is represented by the rabbit fecundating the frog.
From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Daniel Garrison Brinton
The pistil is much longer than the stamens, hence the flower-stalks have their elegant bend, that the stigma may hang downwards to receive the fecundating dust of the anthers.
From The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin
