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

After fecundation the ovum is pushed on into the uterus in from five to seven days, where it fastens to the wall and develops.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

I then prepared to observe the hives every moment that the fineness of the weather would invite both males and females to go abroad, for the purpose of   fecundation.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François

Germs are visible in the ovum before fecundation; in these germs the very primordia of future organization can be distinguished.

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

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 Huber, François