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

Its extremity never opens, and we never find antherozoids; on the contrary, the antheridium presents, up to the maturity of the oospore, the appearance which it presented at the moment of fecundation.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

We have had evidence of this in those produced by queens whose fecundation has been retarded.

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)

Mowbray, Mr., reciprocal fecundation of Passiflora alata and racemosa, ii.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles