fecundate

Whilst the bird is probing the flower, the pollen of the stamens is rubbed in to the lower part of its head, and thus carried from one flower to fecundate another.

From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt

Every human being has a moment when his heart is easily touched, when the tears of grief will flow; and those tears may fecundate a generous thought which might lead to repentance.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

May, the month dear to poets, is frequently but an uninterrupted succession of showers to fecundate the earth; its symbol, an array of outspread umbrellas in our streets.

From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Sir J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine

V. make productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative†, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify†; teem, multiply; produce &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

His mind had one notable quality in common with Emerson's—the capacity to fecundate every other mind with which it came into close contact.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston

This is met with chiefly in the ants, in which each female is generally fecundated successively by several males.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel

The second treatment is necessary to kill the few parasites which sometimes escape at the first treatment, either in the egg stage or as fecundated females.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Moreover, there are women who never menstruate and who, in spite of this, not only regularly discharge ovules but may be fecundated and become pregnant.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel

This is the life into which the slime of the Keateses and Shelleys of former times has fecundated!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

The Lusatian observers, and M. Hattorf in particular, thought the queen was fecundated by herself, without concourse with the males.

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

In some countries only the fecundating pollen is scattered over the female flower, and this doubtless must have been Nature's method of impregnating the date.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

The pistil is much longer than the stamens, hence the flower-stalks have their elegant bend, that the stigma may hang downwards to receive the fecundating dust of the anthers.

From The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin

In China the dragon, except as noted below, is not a power for evil, but a beneficent being producing rain and representing the fecundating principle in nature.

From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Turpin* published a memoir on the organ, by which the fecundating fluid is introduced into the vegetable ovulum.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King

Pollen, pol′en, n. the fertilising powder contained in the anthers of flowers: the male or fecundating element in flowers.—v.t. to cover with pollen.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various