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

Artificial spawning, fecundation, and hatching, are far more productive.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

But the power that the smallest particle possesses in producing natural phenomena cannot be more evidently proved than by Spallanzani’s experiments in fecundation.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

This is called fertilization, fecundation, impregnation or conception.

From The Sex Side of Life An Explanation for Young People by Dennett, Mary

It is essentially necessary for fecundation that the spermatozoa should come into actual contact with the ovum.

From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Knowlton, Charles