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Fertilization :: Fertilization (n.) The act or process of rendering fertile.

Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance..

Geitonogamy :: Geitonogamy (n.) Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.

Intercross :: Intercross (n.) The process or result of cross fertilization between different kinds of animals, or different varieties of plants..

Fecundation :: Fecundation (n.) The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization..

Fertilization :: Fertilization (n.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation..

Grossification :: Grossification (n.) The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.

Polyembryony :: Polyembryony (n.) The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac..

Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of seed without fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle..

Allogamy :: Allogamy (n.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

Pseudovum :: Pseudovum (n.) An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvae of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of Paedogenesis..

Superfecundity :: Superfecundation (n.) Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition..

Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis..

Proembryo :: Proembryo (n.) The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo..

Cleistogamous :: Cleistogamous (a.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization..

Xenogamy :: Xenogamy (n.) Cross fertilization.

Impregnation :: Impregnation (n.) The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoon) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation..

Self-fertilization :: Self-fertilization (n.) The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.

Male :: Male (v. t.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them..

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