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

It is hardly possible to ascertain how many of these ova are capable of fecundation.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

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)

Formation of the Decidua.—After fecundation, the egg becomes attached to the mucous membrane of the cavity of the womb.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste

However, her organization having already suffered from retarded fecundation, and as I had observed her instinct in some degree impaired, both causes might possibly concur in producing the same effect.

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