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
If M. Œrsted’s opinion is confirmed, naturally the whole of the cap will be the product of fecundation.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
It remains to speak of the mechanism of expulsion of the ovule and of its fecundation, as well as the changes in the womb which result from these phenomena.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
The experiments of Jacobi seem to confirm this opinion, since he was able to produce preternatural fecundation in the eggs of fishes.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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
