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
Artificial fecundation, you are aware, has already succeeded in more than one animal.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
Germs are visible in the ovum before fecundation; in these germs the very primordia of future organization can be distinguished.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
It is nearly about this time that the sun declining in the horizon recalls the males; queens requiring fecundation never remain later abroad.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
Mowbray, Mr., reciprocal fecundation of Passiflora alata and racemosa, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
