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inseminate

[in-sem-uh-nayt] / ɪnˈsɛm əˌneɪt /
VERB
impregnate
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Once Crowe had gained her trust, he was able to artificially inseminate her using sperm from a male crane.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

Male bedbugs also display homosexual behaviour, and even try to inseminate other species.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023

But the timing was crucial: Females usually lay two or three eggs and the moment one egg is laid is the right time to inseminate the next one.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2022

Continually coming back to a homicidal partner may seem reckless, but the male spiders are wired to ensure they inseminate a female spider with their genetic information.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 25, 2022

Use 0.1 c.c. of the mixed liquor to inseminate each of a series of three nutrose surface plates.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre

If a breeder inseminates cows with semen from an infertile bull, the cows will not become pregnant.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024

Female orcas kept captive in marine zoos can be artificially inseminated to breed more calves, which can later be used to attract more visitors and perform in shows.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025

But it doesn't end there: the unsuccessfully inseminated cows often cause further problems to the farmers, as they don't give birth to calves and no longer produce milk, meaning the farmer has to replace them.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024

Reeves and Swanson artificially inseminated nine zoo ocelots with sperm from the wild Texas animals in 2021 and 2022, and no pregnancies resulted.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 4, 2023

In 2012, she was artificially inseminated after unsuccessful natural breeding with Tian Tian and became the first giant panda in the country to give birth after the use of frozen semen, experts said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

If then we prepare densely inseminated plates of these two bacteria in gelatine food-medium to which starch is added as the only carbohydrate, the bacteria grow but do not phosphoresce.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

And with each insemination costing 80 Swiss francs, that can soon eat up a breeder's budget: a typical Swiss dairy farm spends several thousand Swiss francs a year on artificially inseminating its herd of cows.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2024

As for Phoenix’s much commented-on speech, yes, OK, he talked about “artificially inseminating cows”, not a subject generally associated with the Oscars.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2020

Texas, where Emmons-Boring currently lives, passed a law earlier this year prohibiting a doctor from inseminating a woman with his own sperm without her consent.

From Fox News ● Oct. 29, 2019

Dr Barwin was previously sanctioned in 2013 for artificially inseminating three patients with the wrong sperm at his Ottawa clinic.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2018

Larger-scale breeding operations are more likely to use in vitro techniques: inseminating many egg cells from a given cow in a Petri dish, creating dozens of embryos instead of a handful.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2015


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