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cross-pollinate

cross-pollinate \cross-pollinate\ v. to fertilize by transfering pollen.

Syn: pollinate.

Wiktionary
cross-pollinate

vb. To pollinate using cross-pollination

WordNet
cross-pollinate

v. fertilize by transfering pollen [syn: pollinate, pollenate]

Usage examples of "cross-pollinate".

MasterVintner Wonegal was still trying to reproduce it, but the vine blight of two hundred turns before had wiped out that varietal, and cross-pollinating of the better white grapes had not yet produced an adequate replacement.

She received from him a, packet of astonishingly immense lusavender seeds, great shiny things as big around as a Skandar's eye, and planted them in a remote corner of her land, where there was no likelihood of their cross-pollinating with her normal lusavenders.

The flying things, mostly small, served the function of insects on other worlds, cross-pollinating this jungle from the top.