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

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)

It is nearly about this time that the sun declining in the horizon recalls the males; queens requiring fecundation never remain later abroad.

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

It is remarkable that amongst these fungi the tube projected by the antheridium effects fecundation only by contact.

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

It remained to discover which were the female organs which underwent fecundation from the spermatia.

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