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 Edward Clodd
Formation of the Decidua.—After fecundation, the egg becomes attached to the mucous membrane of the cavity of the womb.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
But the power that the smallest particle possesses in producing natural phenomena cannot be more evidently proved than by Spallanzani’s experiments in fecundation.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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 Charles Darwin
