Bible Dictionaries
Fertilization

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The act or process of rendering fertile.

(2):

(n.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fertilization'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/fertilization.html. 1828.