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.
Roget 161:
production,
creation,
construction,
formation,
fabrication,
manufacture;
building,
architecture,
erection,
edification;
coinage;
diaster†;
organization;
nisus formativus [Lat.];
putting together
etc.
v.;
establishment;
workmanship,
performance;
achievement
etc.
(completion)
729.
flowering,
fructification;
inflorescence.
bringing forth
etc.
v.;
parturition,
birth,
birth-throe,
childbirth,
delivery,
confinement,
accouchement,
travail,
labor,
midwifery,
obstetrics;
geniture†;
gestation
etc.
(maturation)
673;
assimilation;
evolution,
development,
growth;
entelechy [Phil.];
fertilization,
gemination,
germination,
heterogamy [Biol.],
genesis,
generation,
epigenesis†,
procreation,
progeneration†,
propagation;
fecundation,
impregnation;
albumen
etc.
357.
spontaneous generation;
archegenesis†,
archebiosis†;
biogenesis,
abiogenesis†,
digenesis†,
dysmerogenesis†,
eumerogenesis†,
heterogenesis†,
oogenesis,
merogenesis†,
metogenesis†,
monogenesis†,
parthenogenesis,
homogenesis†,
xenogenesis1†;
authorship,
publication;
works,
opus,
oeuvre.
biogeny†,
dissogeny†,
xenogeny†;
tocogony†,
vacuolization.
edifice,
building,
structure,
fabric,
erection,
pile,
tower,
flower,
fruit.
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Roget 168:
productiveness
etc.
adj.;
fecundity,
fertility,
luxuriance,
uberty†.
pregnancy,
pullulation,
fructification,
multiplication,
propagation,
procreation;
superfetation.
milch cow,
rabbit,
hydra,
warren,
seed plot,
land flowing with milk and honey;
second crop,
aftermath;
aftercrop,
aftergrowth†;
arrish†,
eddish†,
rowen†;
protoplasm;
fertilization.
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Dutch: bevruchting, conceptie, fertilisatie, impregnatie, inseminatie
Polish: spłodzenie, zapłodnienie