Meaning of FERTILIZATION
| Pronunciation: | | `furtli'zeyshun
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [n] making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
- [n] creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
|
| |
| | Websites: | | |
| |
| | Synonyms: | | dressing, fecundation, fertilisation, impregnation |
| |
| | See Also: | | conception, creation, cross-fertilisation, cross-fertilization, enrichment, pollenation, pollination, self-fertilisation, self-fertilization, superfecundation, superfetation, top dressing | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \Fer`ti*li*za"tion\, n.
1. The act or process of rendering fertile.
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.
{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.
|
| |
| Medical Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | Process of conception in which the sperm penetrates the egg (ovum). |
| |
| Biology Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | The union of male and female gametes. |
| |
|
|