fecundate

And then, if the religious sentiment is weakened, are there not other sentiments that can make the heart of man beat, and fecundate genius?

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

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

And it is an ascertained fact, that wheat will not fecundate at all in a temperature which does not exceed 45°, accompanied with a gloomy atmosphere.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

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

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

At once father, mother, and son, he fecundated, conceived, produced, and was.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus

It shows the position of an ovule which has just been discharged lying in the opening of the right tube, and that of another ovary fecundated and surrounded by the decidual membrane.

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

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

This having been done three times, the eggs will be thoroughly fecundated, and are ready to be deposited in the nests for hatching.

From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden

An egg fecundated and fixed in this way may keep its position and grow during the first weeks of pregnancy, by the aid of villosities covering its envelope which penetrate the wall of the womb.

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

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

Poll′en-tube, the tube by which the fecundating element is conveyed to the ovule.—adj.

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

Other flowers of the classes of monœcia and diœcia, and polygamia discharge the fecundating farina, which, floating in the air, is carried to the stigma of the female flowers, and that at considerable distances.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler

It is a porous tufa adapted, presumably, for sheltering and fecundating vegetable spores.

From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas