fertilize : Idioms & Phrases

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cross-fertilize

  • verb undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile
    cross-fertilise.
  • verb cause to undergo cross-fertilization
    cross-fertilise.
    • Mendel cross-fertilized different kinds of beans
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fertilized egg

  • noun an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
    embryo; conceptus.
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fertilized ovum

  • noun (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)
    zygote.
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self-fertilized

  • adjective satellite fertilized by its own pollen
    self-fertilised; self-pollinated.
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Self`-fer"ti*lized adjective
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
Webster 1913

wind-fertilized

Wind"-fer`ti*lized adjective
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
Webster 1913