cross-fertilize
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James Huckenpahler’s digital prints cross-fertilize portraits from the Brady-Handy collection of Civil War-era photography with images from the artist’s computer.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018
But the line behind her, filled with a generation of comics who’ve managed to cross-fertilize standup and with a contemporary, queer sensibility, is growing rapidly, and comedy’s evolving apparatus can barely keep pace.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2018
The practical benefit is that the multiple projects cross-fertilize each other.
From Time • Oct. 6, 2016
If other barnacles also use ocean currents to cross-fertilize, scientists may have to rework their population models, he says.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 16, 2013
The female bumblebees, which, by striking the protruding stigma before they jar out any pollen, cross-fertilize it, are the flower's chief benefactors, but one often sees the little yellow puddle butterfly about it.
From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje
