cross-fertilization
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- cross-fertilisation (mostly British)
Etymology[edit]
From cross- + fertilization.
Noun[edit]
cross-fertilization (countable and uncountable, plural cross-fertilizations)
- Fertilization by the union of gametes of different plants (sometimes of different species).
- (by extension) The mutual exchange of ideas or concepts from different fields for mutual benefit.
- 2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 183:
- His fame led to some curious cultural cross-fertilizations. In Japan, the Yamamoto-clad singer stirred up a singular fanaticism—so much so that Japanese charter flights traveled all the way to Kinshasa, while in Tokyo, clone bands skilled at his kind of soukous multiplied.
Translations[edit]
fertilization by the union of gametes of different plants (sometimes of different species)
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