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

The act of impregnating, or the state of being impregnated, in addition to a prior impregnation; superfetation.

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

Self-impregnation. Darwin.

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

es only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

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

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

To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or variety by another; to impregnate by a different species or variety.

The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour.

The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

ess of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than one spermatozoön into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum.

The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.

The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation. In then became a superfetation upon, and not…