Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
The process whereby a new organism is produced by fertilization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: fertilization, fertilisation, dressing
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: enrichment
Narrower terms: top dressing
noun
creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: fertilization, fertilisation, impregnation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: creation, conception
Narrower terms: pollination, pollenation, cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation, self-fertilization, self-fertilisation, superfecundation, superfetation
History
Etymology tree English fecund Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English fecundation From fecund + -ation.
