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e 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 blossom. -- Cross fertilization, fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under Cross, a.

The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy.

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.

sess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.

on. -- Close corporation, a body or corporation which fills its own vacancies. -- Close fertilization. (Bot.) See Fertilization. -- Close harmony (Mus.), compact harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not widely distributed over several octaves. -- Close time, a fixed period during which killing game…

ountry, across the country; not by the road. "The cross- country ride." Cowper. -- Cross fertilization, the fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See Fertilization. -- Cross file,…

ct with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

d of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

s of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oöspore. In Zoöl., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.

Fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.

The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.

e of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive…

Not capable of self-fertilization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.

The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.

t authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word. Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. Darwin.

ön) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation.

The process or result of cross fertilization between different kinds of animals, or different varieties of plants. We have reason to believe that occasional intercrosses take place with all animals and plants. Darwin.

Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; - - said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.