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

This attraction is daily seen in the fecundation of the spawn of fish.

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

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)

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

I then prepared to observe the hives every moment that the fineness of the weather would invite both males and females to go abroad, for the purpose of   fecundation.

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