fecundate
English
Etymology
fecund + -ate
Verb
fecundate (third-person singular simple present fecundates, present participle fecundating, simple past and past participle fecundated)
- To make fertile.
- To inseminate.
- 1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms [...], London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, OCLC 243495533, page 210:
- The pollen of plants is the fecundating power, and consists of a number of small sacs, invisible to the naked eye, in which a fluid exists, which is analogous to the spermatic fluid in man and animals.
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Translations
to make fertile
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to inseminate
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Anagrams
- unfaceted