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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cross-fertilize
verb
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▪ We hope to cross-fertilize the company with the expertise we've gained from other industries.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cross-fertilize

Cross-fertilize \Cross"-fer"ti*lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cross-fertilized; p. pr. & vb. n. Cross-fertilizing.] (Bot.) To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.

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cross-fertilize

vb. To undergo (or cause to undergo) cross-fertilization.

WordNet
cross-fertilize
  1. v. undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile [syn: cross-fertilise]

  2. cause to undergo cross-fertilization; "Mendel cross-fertilized different kinds of beans" [syn: cross-fertilise]

Usage examples of "cross-fertilize".

Willard Gibbs, far more than Einstein, created the modern cosmos, and his concept of contingent or statistical reality, when cross-fertilized with the Second Law of Thermodynamics by Shannon and Wiener, led to the definition of information as the negative reciprocal of probability, making the clubbings of Jesus by Chicago cops just another of those things that happens in this kind of quantum jump.

It was in the Eastern Mediterranean that African, Asian, and European civilizations, including the great cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia, met and cross-fertilized in a vigorous and heady confrontation of prejudices, languages, ideas and gods.

The lights were becoming more intricate, their patterns cross-fertilizing, gaining depth and weight.

There had been a cross-fertilizing trickle of researchers moving in both directions on a strictly one-for-one basis for years, dating back to the days of Eisenhower and Krushchev.