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fecundate

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Etymology

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From fecund +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French féconder.

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fecundate (third-person singular simple present fecundates, present participle fecundating, simple past and past participle fecundated)

  1. To make fertile.
  2. To inseminate.
    • 1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms [...], London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, →OCLC, page 210:
      The pollen of plants is the fecundating power, and consists of a number of small sacs, invisible to the naked eye, in which a fluid exists, which is analogous to the spermatic fluid in man and animals.

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fecundate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of fecundar combined with te
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