fecundation

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Lack of sunshine prevented proper fecundation, resulting in a crop that is little more than half the size of 1977's.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is hardly possible to ascertain how many of these ova are capable of fecundation.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

It remains to speak of the mechanism of expulsion of the ovule and of its fecundation, as well as the changes in the womb which result from these phenomena.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste

Germs are visible in the ovum before fecundation; in these germs the very primordia of future organization can be distinguished.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Morton, Lord, effect of fecundation by a quagga on an Arab mare, i. 403-404.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles