fecundate

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

And then, if the religious sentiment is weakened, are there not other sentiments that can make the heart of man beat, and fecundate genius?

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

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

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

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

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

It was a fortunate idea, that she left the hive to be fecundated, and your method of ascertaining the fact was extremely judicious and well adapted to the object in view.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber

Only fecundated females feed on blood, and must be fertilized after each batch of eggs.

From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Rennie Wilbur Doane

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

His queens, though in hives deprived of males, had been fecundated, and he thence concludes that sexual intercourse is not requisite for their impregnation.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber

Turpin* published a memoir on the organ, by which the fecundating fluid is introduced into the vegetable ovulum.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King

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

Other flowers of the classes of monecia and diecia, and polygamia, discharge the fecundating farina, which floating in the air is carried to the stigma of the female flowers, and that at considerable distances.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

It was one of the modifications of sun worship, and was a symbol of the fecundating power of that luminary.

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey

Pollen, pol′en, n. the fertilising powder contained in the anthers of flowers: the male or fecundating element in flowers.—v.t. to cover with pollen.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various