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Impregnation   /ɪmprˈɛgnˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Impregnation

noun
1.
Material with which something is impregnated.
2.
The process of totally saturating something with a substance.  Synonym: saturation.  "The saturation of cotton with ether"
3.
Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant.  Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization.





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"Impregnation" Quotes from Famous Books



... after leaving the cell, her size is much less than after she has assumed her maternal duties. She seldom, perhaps never, leaves the hive, except when leading a swarm, and when but a few days old, to meet the drones, in the air, for the purpose of fecundation. The manner of the queen's impregnation is yet a disputed point, and probably never witnessed by any one. The majority of close observers, I believe, are of opinion that the drones are the males, and that sexual connection takes place in the air,[1] performing their amours while on the wing, like the humble-bee ...
— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby
... calyx of the same flower; while in fig. 111 are shown the stamens and style of the two plants respectively. In the upper figure the style of the peloriate variety is shown as nearly straight, and the stamens undergo a corresponding change. No doubt the relative fertility and capacity for impregnation of the two varieties is affected in proportion to the change of form. The Gloxinia affords an instance of regular congenital peloria in which the regularity of form and the erect direction are due to an arrest, not of growth, but of development, in consequence of which ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters


Words linked to "Impregnation" :   pollination, superfecundation, conception, pollenation, cross-fertilization, stuff, plastination, fertilisation, material, self-fertilisation, creation, suffusion, fertilization, superfetation, saturation, impregnate, cross-fertilisation, fecundation, permeation, self-fertilization, pervasion


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