fecundate

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: fe=cun=date

CIDE DICTIONARY

fecundate, v. t. [L. fecundare, fr. fecundus. See Fecund.].

•  To make fruitful or prolific.  W. Montagu.  [1913 Webster]
•  To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fecundate, v.tr.
1 make fruitful.
2 = FERTILIZE.

Derivative

fecundation n.

Etymology

L fecundare f. fecundus fruitful

THESAURUS

fecundate

cross-fertilize, cross-pollen, cross-pollinate, cross-pollinize, dress, enrich, fatten, fecundify, fertilize, fructify, get with child, get with young, impregnate, inseminate, manure, pollen, pollinate, pollinize, prolificate, spermatize

ROGET THESAURUS

fecundate

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

Productiveness

VB make productive, fructify, procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate, fecundate, fecundify, teem, multiply, produce, conceive.