fecundate

V. make productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative†, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify†; teem, multiply; produce &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

Whilst the bird is probing the flower, the pollen of the stamens is rubbed in to the lower part of its head, and thus carried from one flower to fecundate another.

From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt

His mind had one notable quality in common with Emerson's—the capacity to fecundate every other mind with which it came into close contact.

From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston

And then, if the religious sentiment is weakened, are there not other sentiments that can make the heart of man beat, and fecundate genius?

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

The sun is the agent of the generative power of the sky, and his beams fecundate the earth, so that from her all life is produced.

From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant

The primitive lineaments of organization may be traced in the egg, even before it is fecundated.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

So the idea of ‘the relative’ has been fecundated in modern times by the influence of the sciences of observation.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones

In the first chapter we have spoken of the changes undergone by the fecundated ovule till it becomes the embryo and then the infant.

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

The eggs of the trout thus fecundated and deposited in October or November will hatch in the spring.

From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden

If the ovum produced is not fecundated, it gradually shrivels up, and passes off through the uterus and the vagina.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

There is a fecundating power in them which generates thought, and it is in the moral nature that this force is most apparent.

From Beethoven by George Alexander Fischer

It was one of the modifications of sun worship, and was a symbol of the fecundating power of that luminary.

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey

Myriads of these eggs are accumulated in ponds and rivers; yet in this mass the fecundating principle solely selects and impregnates those that naturally claim its vivifying powers.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

They usually consist of a filament and an anther, the anther being the essential part in which the pollen, or fecundating dust, is formed.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

It is a porous tufa adapted, presumably, for sheltering and fecundating vegetable spores.

From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas