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Sparrow :: Sparrow (n.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House..

Fecundating :: Fecundating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fecundat.

Micropyle :: Micropyle (n.) An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule..

Fecundify :: Fecundify (v. t.) To make fruitful; to fecundate.

Impregnation :: Impregnation (n.) The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

Agenesic :: Agenesic (a.) Characterized by sterility; infecund.

Semen :: Semen (n.) The seed or fecundating fluid of male animals; sperm. It is a white or whitish viscid fluid secreted by the testes, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power..

Superfetate :: Superfecundity (n.) Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species.

Fertile :: Fertile (a.) Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination..

Stamened :: Stamen (n.) The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

Pollen :: Pollen (n.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament..

Prefecundation :: Prefecundation (n.) A term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation..

Virgin :: Virgin (n.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect..

Ovulist :: Ovulist (n.) 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. Also called ovist..

Fructification :: Fructification (n.) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation..

Fertilization :: Fertilization (n.) 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..

Sterilize :: Sterilize (v. t.) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.

Infecund :: Infecund (a.) Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile.

Fecundate :: Fecundate (v. t.) To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma..

Fecund :: Fecund (a.) Fruitful in children; prolific.

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