fecundate
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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
And it is an ascertained fact, that wheat will not fecundate at all in a temperature which does not exceed 45°, accompanied with a gloomy atmosphere.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
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
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
The ancient Germans worshiped a virgin goddess under the the name of Hertha, or Ostara, who was fecundated by the active spirit, i. e., the "Holy Spirit."
The fecundated females, on their part, become breeding machines whose activity is incessant.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
Male, influence of, on the fecundated female, i. 397-406; supposed influence of, on offspring, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
The object of this is, no doubt, to prepare the mucous membrane of the womb for the fixation of the fecundated egg which will become grafted on its surface.
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
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
Visions crossed his mind, born in the soft warm air of these fecundating winds, of this strange yet peaceful scene.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
The supreme leaders in science, the men whose discoveries have been fecundating and fundamental, seem to be at least seven—Euclid, Archimedes, Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, Lavoisier, and Darwin.
From Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews
But that half is excellent, keen, jolly, temperate; and because of that temperance—the most stimulating and fecundating of qualities—the humour of it has set the literature of a hemisphere to the tune of mirth.
From The Rhythm of Life by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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
