fertilization

English

Alternative forms

• fertilisation

Etymology

From French fertilisation

Noun

fertilization (countable and uncountable, plural fertilizations)

1. The act or process of rendering fertile.
2. The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable gametes; especially, the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

Synonyms

• conception
• fecundation
• syngamy

Derived terms

• in vitro fertilization

Translations

act of rendering fertile

• Bulgarian: оплождане n (oploždane)
• Catalan: fertilització f
• Czech: oplodnění n
• French: fertilisation (fr)
• Georgian: განაყოფიერება (ganaq̇opiereba), გაპატივება (gaṗaṭiveba) (of soil)
• Italian: fertilizzazione (it) f
• Malay: persenyawaan

• Maori: whakatōnga
• Portuguese: fertilização (pt) f
• Romanian: fertilizare (ro)
• Russian: оплодотворе́ние (ru) n (oplodotvorénije), удобре́ние по́чвы n (udobrénije póčvy) (fertilization of soil)
• Scottish Gaelic: torachadh m
• Spanish: fertilización (es) f

act of fecundating

• Bulgarian: опрашване n (oprašvane)
• Catalan: fecundació f
• French: fécondation (fr), fertilisation (fr)
• Georgian: განაყოფიერება (ganaq̇opiereba)
• German: Befruchtung (de) f
• Irish: toirchiú m

• Italian: fecondazione (it) f
• Portuguese: fertilização (pt) f, fecundação (pt) f
• Romanian: fecundare (ro) f
• Russian: опыле́ние (ru) n (opylénije) (pollination)
• Spanish: fecundación (es) f
• Tagalog: sapunla