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Fertilization   /fˌərtəlɪzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Fertilization

noun
1.
Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant.  Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, impregnation.
2.
Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure.  Synonyms: dressing, fecundation, fertilisation.



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"Fertilization" Quotes from Famous Books



... becomes clear that the use of fertilizers in a vineyard is a local problem. General advice is of little value. It is evident also that the fertilization of vineyards is so involved with other factors that only carefully planned and long continued work will give reliable information as to the needs of vines. Indeed, field experiments even in carefully selected ...
— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick

... warm ferments of the Var Vale, at a season when the rush of juices could almost be heard below the hiss of fertilization, it was impossible that the most fanciful love should not grow passionate. The ready bosoms existing there were impregnated by their surroundings. July passed over their heads and the weather which came in ...
— The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry • W. G. Archer

... is wrapped within the flicker of a day, who do not know, do not realize, and do not care about the fearful suffering of the world—I say to them to strut their intoxicated hour and pass away. The sooner they live their lives and the sooner they die, the better for the earth. It needs fertilization. ...
— Tyranny of God • Joseph Lewis

... from the rest, while in the male there is one odd one, the remaining 20 being like the corresponding 20 of the female. Before the germ cell becomes fit to mix with a germ cell of opposite sex, in the process of fertilization, it must lose one half of these. So the number of chromosomes for the species is kept the same or constant. This is the process of maturation. In the process, when the chromosome number is halved among ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... to some extent in the phosphates, sulphates, and carbonates which a man's body reveals to our analysis. May not these substances be traces left within him of the passage of the electric fluid which is the principle of all fertilization? Would not electricity manifest itself by a greater variety of compounds in him than in any other animal? Should not he have faculties above those of all other created beings for the purpose of absorbing fuller ...
— The Alkahest • Honore de Balzac

... nature, so as to render that account intelligible to other minds, without using such terms as "contrivance," "purpose," "adaptation," "design." A striking illustration of this may be found in Darwin's volume "On the Fertilization of Orchids." We select from his volume with all the more pleasure because he is one of the writers who enjoins "caution in ascribing intentions to nature." In one sentence he says: "The Labellum is developed into a long nectary, in ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

... on the fertilization of orchids. He had held at one time the family living at Borlsover Conyers, until a congenital weakness of the lungs obliged him to seek a less rigorous climate in the sunny south coast watering-place where I had seen him. Occasionally he would relieve one or other of the ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various



Words linked to "Fertilization" :   pollination, cross-fertilisation, pollenation, conception, superfecundation, creation, enrichment, top dressing, self-fertilisation, superfetation, fertilize



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