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

We have had evidence of this in those produced by queens whose fecundation has been retarded.

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

In this case fecundation takes place without copulation.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste

Malpighi and his school contended that the perfect animal is already “preformed” in the germ; for example, the hen’s egg, before fecundation, containing an excessively minute, but complete, chick.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward

Morton, Lord, effect of fecundation by a quagga on an Arab mare, i. 403-404.

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