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
n making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
常见例句
1
A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other
2
A term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation.
3
-- said of the germinal spot in the ripe egg at one of the stages of fecundation.
