Fecundation
11canal of fecundation — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) The seminal canal of female Coleoptera …
12artificial fecundation — artificial insemination …
13fecundate — fecundation, n. fecundator, n. fecundatory /fi kun deuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. /fee keuhn dayt , fek euhn /, v.t., fecundated, fecundating. 1. to make prolific or fruitful. 2. Biol. to impregnate or fertilize. [1625 35; < L fecundatus made… …
14self-fertilization — Fecundation of the ovules by the pollen of the same flower, or of the ova by the spermatozoa of the same animal in hermaphrodite forms; denoting an extreme type of inbreeding seen in certain plants and animal forms which produce both male and… …
15fertilisation — noun 1. creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant • Syn: ↑fertilization, ↑fecundation, ↑impregnation • Derivationally related forms: ↑impregnate (for: ↑impregnation …
16Impregnation — Im preg*na tion, n. [Cf. F. impr[ e]gnation, LL. impraegnatio.] 1. The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a… …
17Prefecundation — Pre*fec un*da tion, n. (Physiol.) A term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation. [1913 Webster] …
18Ovoviviparity — Ovoviviparity, ovovivipary, or ovivipary, is a mode of reproduction in animals in which embryos develop inside eggs that are retained within the mother s body until they are ready to hatch. Ovoviviparous animals are similar to viviparous species… …
19Oviparity — Oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, reptiles, all birds, the monotremes, and most insects, some molluscs and… …
20Lorenzo Domínguez — (1901 1963)Lorenzo Domínguez (Santiago de Chile 1901 Mendoza, Argentina 1963) was a prolific Latin American sculptor whose art is a deliberate and personal synthesis of pre Columbian and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) aesthetics with a European… …
