Fecundation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FECUNDATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of making fecund
• 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.
• creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
• making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
• creation by the physical union of male and female gametes.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make fecund

Words related to FECUNDATION

fecundate15

Words that contain FECUNDATION

fecundations18 superfecundation24 superfecundations25

How to use FECUNDATION in a sentence

• It is interesting to observe the different methods by which fecundation is effected, both in plants and animals, for this is a process common to both.
• At the proper moment, the corolla contracts in such a way as to bring the stamens nearer to the stigma, or in contact with it, so as to insure fecundation.
• The flowers of some plants, during and after fecundation, also show an increase of heat, in some cases so marked as to be readily detected with the thermometer.
• In higher orders of animals, fecundation takes place within the generative organs of the female by contact between the male and the female organs.
• The male of a species of South American fish gathers up the eggs after fecundation has taken place, and carries them in his mouth until they are hatched.
• If fecundation does not occur, it is expelled or absorbed after six to twelve or fourteen days.
• If fecundation occurs, the result will be a development of two embryos at the same time.
• In rare cases, three or even four ova are matured at once, and by fecundation produce a corresponding number of embryos.
• More recently another German physician has advanced the theory that the sex may be controlled at will by observing the time of fecundation.
• The materialists believe that there must be marriage, and say that a living body cannot be created from a lifeless body, and without male and female there cannot be fecundation.

Similar words containing FECUNDA without suffix tion

fecundate15 fecundated17 fecundates16 fecundator16 fecundating18 fecundators17 fecundatory20 fecundations18 superfecundatio23 superfecundation24 superfecundations25

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