fecundation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fecundation (countable and uncountable, plural fecundations)
- The process whereby a new organism is produced by fertilization.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 234:
- In Neolithic agricultural societies, the sacrificed male and his remains were transferred to the fields needing fecundation, and there the Great Mother becomes the soil receiving the fertilizing blood.
Translations[edit]
process whereby a new organism is produced by fertilization — see fertilization