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

At length, having gone to seek the males, she returned with all the external signs of fecundation, and was henceforth received with every mark of respect; she laid her first eggs forty-six hours after fecundation.

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

If, on the contrary, she did not attack the cell I would thence conclude that the delay of fecundation, which deprived her of the power of laying workers eggs, had also impaired her instinct.

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

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

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

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)