Fec"un*date (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fecundated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fecundating (?).] [L. fecundare, fr. fecundus. See Fecund.]

1.

To make fruitful or prolific.

W. Montagu.

2. Biol.

To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.

 

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