fecundate

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

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 sun is the agent of the generative power of the sky, and his beams fecundate the earth, so that from her all life is produced.

From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant

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

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

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

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

In precisely the same way, the mother wasps and hornets are fecundated.

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth

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

If the ovum produced is not fecundated, it gradually shrivels up, and passes off through the uterus and the vagina.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

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

Athos was a great seigneur compared with such nobles as the king improvised by touching with his yellow fecundating scepter the dry trunks of the heraldic trees of the province.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas père

For the fecundating nuclei are the very spark-essence of the blood.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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 monœcia and diœcia, 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 Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler