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

Malpighi and his school contended that the perfect animal is already “preformed” in the germ; for example, the hen’s egg, before fecundation, containing an excessively minute, but complete, chick.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward

Having found no external appearance of fecundation, we allowed her to enter.

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)

At length, having gone to seek the males, she returned with all the external signs of fecundation, and was henceforth received with every mark of respect; she laid her first eggs forty-six hours after fecundation.

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