Fertilization

Fertilization
Fertilization Fer`ti*li*za"tion, n. 1. The act or process of rendering fertile. [1913 Webster]

2. (Biol.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. [1913 Webster]

{Close fertilization} (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom.

{Cross fertilization}, fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under {Cross}, a. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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