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

Its extremity never opens, and we never find antherozoids; on the contrary, the antheridium presents, up to the maturity of the oospore, the appearance which it presented at the moment of fecundation.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Larkspurs, insect agency necessary for the full fecundation of, ii.

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

This is called fertilization, fecundation, impregnation or conception.

From The Sex Side of Life An Explanation for Young People by Dennett, Mary

But the power that the smallest particle possesses in producing natural phenomena cannot be more evidently proved than by Spallanzani’s experiments in fecundation.

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