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The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.

pinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum artem." South

ucing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak.

To fertilize; to fecundate. Sir T. Browne.

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. "fertility of resource." E. Everett. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertilit…

The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same b…

To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower. A. R. Wallace.

f forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown.

A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color.

ided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.

The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.

nded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel…

o come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture.

A long-tailed monkey of Borneo (Semnopithecus rubicundus). It has a tuft of long hair on the head.

A membrane of a seed. See Secundine.

An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule. -- Mi*crop"y*lar, a.

lant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.

during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.