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
Larkspurs, insect agency necessary for the full fecundation of, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
However, forty-six hours elapse after fecundation before they begin to lay.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
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
Malpighi and his school contended that the perfect animal is already “preformed” in the germ; for example, the hen’s egg, before fecundation, containing an excessively minute, but complete, chick.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward
