Definitions for cross-fertilization

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cross-fertilization cross-fer·ti·li·za·tion

Spelling: [kraws-fur-tl-uh-zey-shuh n, Cross-Fertilization is a 19 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 4649 anagrams from letters in cross-fertilization (-acefiiilnoorrssttz).

Definitions for cross-fertilization

noun

1. Biology. the fertilization of an organism by the fusion of an egg from one individual with a sperm or male gamete from a different individual.
2. Botany. fertilization of the flower of one plant by a gamete from the flower of a closely related plant (opposed to self-fertilization).
3. (not in technical use) cross-pollination.
4. interaction or interchange, as between two or more cultures, fields of activity or knowledge, or the like, that is mutually beneficial and productive:

Origin of cross-fertilization

First recorded in 1875-80

Examples for cross-fertilization

Knight, Andrew:—On the divination of flowers, 108;theory of cross-fertilization, 115.

All my fruits are set for cross-fertilization, and I shall continue to set that way.

"A cross-fertilization of ideas" was thus carried on by Providence.

When we go into a library—some of us—we want to feel our minds being gently exposed to cross-fertilization.

cross-fertilization is necessary to some plants and beneficial to all.

cross-fertilization easily takes place where different strains are produced in the same locality.

Let us consider the flower simply as a device to insure its own cross-fertilization.

cross-fertilization is the advantage the tree gains for all it gives.

The mechanism of their cross-fertilization is the same in all, with only slight modifications.

But the cross-fertilization of advertising and art also worked the other way.