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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. make fertile or productive;
- Example: "The course fertilized her imagination"
[syn: fertilize, fecundate, fertilise]

2. introduce semen into (a female);
[syn: inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fecundate \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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fecundate v 1: make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination" [syn: fertilize, fecundate, fertilise] 2: introduce semen into (a female) [syn: inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

20 Moby Thesaurus words for "fecundate": cross-fertilize, cross-pollen, cross-pollinate, cross-pollinize, dress, enrich, fatten, fecundify, fertilize, fructify, get with child, get with young, impregnate, inseminate, manure, pollen, pollinate, pollinize, prolificate, spermatize