insemination

See also: insémination

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

insemination (countable and uncountable, plural inseminations)

1. A sowing of seed; the act of inseminating.
2. The act of impregnating (making pregnant).
   • 2010, Jeffrey Boss, Human Consciousness of God in the Book of Job (page 158)

     At the same time there is no fantasy, as there is in the teleportage of science fiction, or in the Greek myth that requires the insemination of a woman by a swan.

Related terms

• inseminate

Translations

act of inseminating by natural or artificial means — see breeding

act of sowing seed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 授精 (zh) (shòujīng)

• Finnish: kylvö (fi), kylväminen (fi); siementäminen (fi), siemennys (fi)
• Japanese: 受精 (ja) (じゅせい, jusei)
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• Polish: zasiew (pl) m, posiew (pl) m
• Portuguese: semeadura (pt) f
• Romanian: însămânțare (ro)
• Russian: посе́в (ru) m (posév)

act of making pregnant

• Arabic: تَخْصِيب m (taḵṣīb)
• Armenian: բեղմնավորում (hy) (beġmnavorum)
• Basque: intseminazio
• Catalan: inseminació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 授精 (zh) (shòujīng)

• Dutch: inseminatie (nl) f
• Finnish: siittäminen (fi), siitos (fi), hedelmöittäminen (fi), hedelmöitys (fi)
• French: insémination (fr) f
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• German: Besamung f, Befruchtung (de) f, Insemination (de) f
• Hungarian: megtermékenyítés (hu)
• Japanese: 授精 (じゅせい, jusei), 受精 (ja) (じゅせい, jusei)
• Malay: inseminasi, permanian
• Polish: zapłodnienie (pl) n, zaplemnienie n
• Portuguese: inseminação (pt) f
• Russian: оплодотворе́ние (ru) n (oplodotvorénije), осемене́ние (ru) n (osemenénije)
• Spanish: inseminación f