verb
Meaning 1
To make fertile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fecundate
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verb
Meaning 2
To inseminate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
introduce semen into (a female)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: inseminate, fertilize, fertilise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: stratify, impregnate, knock up, bang up, prang up, cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise, pollinate, pollenate, cross-pollinate
verb
Meaning 4
make fertile or productive
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The course fertilized her imagination
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fertilize, fertilise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
History
Etymology
From Latin fecundātus, perfect passive participle of fecundō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, fecund + -ate. Compare French féconder.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: правя плодовит (pravja plodovit) — to make fertile
- French: féconder — to make fertile
- Romanian: fecunda — to make fertile
- Russian: де́лать плодоро́дным (délatʹ plodoródnym) — to make fertile
- Spanish: fecundar — to make fertile
- Spanish: fecundizar — to make fertile
- Bulgarian: оплождам (oploždam) — to inseminate
- Catalan: fecundar — to inseminate
- French: féconder — to inseminate
- Irish: toirchigh — to inseminate
- Russian: оплодотворя́ть (oplodotvorjátʹ) — to inseminate
- Russian: оплодотвори́ть (oplodotvorítʹ) — to inseminate
- Spanish: fecundar — to inseminate
- Spanish: fecundizar — to inseminate
- Spanish: inseminar — to inseminate
- Swedish: befrukta — to inseminate