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.

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The experiments of Jacobi seem to confirm this opinion, since he was able to produce preternatural fecundation in the eggs of fishes.

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

Artificial spawning, fecundation, and hatching, are far more productive.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

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

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

During a month that her imprisonment continued, she did not lay a single egg; therefore, these momentary junctions do not accomplish fecundation.

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