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
The reality of some kind of fecundation in this circumstance, and the mode of the phenomena, if there is one, are for the present equally uncertain.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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 François Huber
This, which is truly a very singular fact in itself, renders the influence of retarded fecundation still more difficult to be accounted for.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
Mowbray, Mr., reciprocal fecundation of Passiflora alata and racemosa, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
