fecundating

Verb

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

1. To make fertile.
2. To inseminate.
   • 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.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...