fecundationn.
/ˌfɛk(ə)nˈdeɪʃn/, /ˌfiːk(ə)nˈdeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌfɛk(ə)nˈdeɪʃən/, /ˌfik(ə)nˈdeɪʃən/ The process of fecundating; fertilization, impregnation.
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pregnation?a1425
seasoning1511
fecundation?1541
impregnation1605
fructifying1638
adosculation1682
foetification1720
fertilization1837
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Njv Or that ye make fecondacyon.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. vii. 350 A common conceit, that Rachel requested these plants as a medicine of fecundation . View more context for this quotation
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 31 This Fecundation is done by the help of the Wind, which conveys the prolifick Dust into the Tubes of the Pestils.
1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 486 Every~thing indicates that the contact of the Spermatozoon with the Ovulum is the one thing needful in the act of fecundation.
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