fertilization

English

Alternative forms

• fertilisation

Etymology

From French fertilisation

Noun

fertilization (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”, 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)
• Italian: fertilizzazione (it) f
• Malay: persenyawaan

• Russian: оплодотворение (ru) n (oplodotvorénije), удобрение почвы 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)
• German: Befruchtung (de) f
• Irish: toirchiú m

• Italian: fecondazione (it) f
• Russian: опыление (ru) n (opylénije) (pollination)
• Spanish: fecundación (es) f