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

After fecundation the ovum is pushed on into the uterus in from five to seven days, where it fastens to the wall and develops.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Quagga, effect of fecundation by, on the subsequent progeny of a mare, i. 403-404.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

In this case fecundation takes place without copulation.

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

It remains to speak of the mechanism of expulsion of the ovule and of its fecundation, as well as the changes in the womb which result from these phenomena.

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