fecundation
Example Sentences
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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
It is necessary to explain here the results of recent scientific work on the intimate phenomena of cell-division, for they are closely allied to those of fecundation.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
It is nearly about this time that the sun declining in the horizon recalls the males; queens requiring fecundation never remain later abroad.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
Having found no external appearance of fecundation, we allowed her to enter.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
The reality of some kind of fecundation in this circumstance, and the mode of the phenomena, if there is one, are for the present equally uncertain.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
