fertilization

English

Alternative forms

• fertilisation

Etymology

From French fertilisation; equivalent to fertilize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fertilization (countable and uncountable, plural fertilizations)

1. The act or process of rendering fertile.
2. The act of fecundating or impregnating the gametes of animals, plants, etc.; including the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, an analogous process in flowerless plants, or the joining of sperm and egg in animals.
   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in 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.

3. The act of applying fertilizer to soil.

Synonyms

• conception
• fecundation
• syngamy
• impregnation

Derived terms

• cross-fertilization
• external fertilization
• internal fertilization
• in vitro fertilization
• self-fertilization

 

Translations

act of rendering fertile

• Armenian: բեղմնավորում (hy) (beġmnavorum)
• Bulgarian: оплождане n (oploždane)
• Catalan: fertilització f
• Czech: oplodnění n
• Finnish: lannoitus (fi), maanparannus
• French: fertilisation (fr)
• Galician: fertilización (gl) f
• Georgian: განაყოფიერება (ganaq̇opiereba), გაპატივება (gaṗaṭiveba) (of soil)
• Italian: fertilizzazione (it) f
• Malay: persenyawaan (ms)
• Maori: whakatōnga
• Portuguese: fertilização (pt) f
• Romanian: fertilizare (ro)
• Russian: удобре́ние по́чвы n (udobrénije póčvy) (fertilization of soil)
• Scottish Gaelic: torachadh m
• Spanish: fertilización (es) f

act of fecundating

• Armenian: բեղմնավորում (hy) (beġmnavorum)
• Bulgarian: опрашване n (oprašvane)
• Catalan: fecundació (ca) f
• Finnish: hedelmöitys (fi), hedelmöittäminen (fi)
• French: fécondation (fr), fertilisation (fr)
• Georgian: განაყოფიერება (ganaq̇opiereba)
• German: Befruchtung (de) f
• Irish: toirchiú m
• Italian: fecondazione (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pîtandin

• Maori: whakakikiritanga
• Portuguese: fertilização (pt) f, fecundação (pt) f
• Romanian: fecundare (ro) f
• Russian: оплодотворе́ние (ru) n (oplodotvorénije)
• Spanish: fecundación (es) f
• Swedish: befruktning (sv) c
• Tagalog: sapunla
• Ukrainian: заплі́днення n (zaplídnennja)

act of applying fertilizer

• Catalan: adobament m
• Finnish: lannoitus (fi)