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Cross-fertilization   Listen
noun
cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation  n.  
1.
Fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Cross-fertilization" Quotes from Famous Books



... are grown outdoors, as we are likely to grow them, they are planted in hills. Nowadays, they are grown in hothouses; they hang from the roof, and are a wonderful sight. In the greenhouse a hive of bees is kept so that cross-fertilization may go on. ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw
... bee's back and smeared with a few pollen-grains brought by the bee from a distant flower. These rapidly expand into "pollen tubes," or filaments, and, penetrating the long style, reach the egg-germs below. Thus cross-fertilization is brought about by the bees which come for the nectar of Salvia. The stalks and outer parts of the flower of this plant produce a very sticky secretion which effectually prevents any small insects from crawling up and helping themselves to the nectar ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester


Words linked to "Cross-fertilization" :   cross-fertilisation, cross-fertilize, self-fertilization, allogamy, reciprocation, fertilisation, interchange


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