fecundate

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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 Roget, Peter Mark

May, the month dear to poets, is frequently but an uninterrupted succession of showers to fecundate the earth; its symbol, an array of outspread umbrellas in our streets.

From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

And it is an ascertained fact, that wheat will not fecundate at all in a temperature which does not exceed 45°, accompanied with a gloomy atmosphere.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

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 Eggleston, George Cary

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 Belt, Thomas