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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fertilization \Fer'ti*li*za"tion\, noun
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}, adjective
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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 [syn: {fertilisation}, {fecundation}, {impregnation}]
2: making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure [syn: {fertilisation}, {fecundation}, {dressing}]
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