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

Having found no external appearance of fecundation, we allowed her to enter.

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

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)

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 is remarkable that amongst these fungi the tube projected by the antheridium effects fecundation only by contact.

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