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

Mowbray, Mr., reciprocal fecundation of Passiflora alata and racemosa, ii.

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

On the one hand, this queen had suffered long confinement; on the other, her fecundation had been extremely retarded.

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)

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