What is "fertilised"

Usage examples of "fertilised".

To give an instance: Mirabilis jalappa can easily be fertilised by the pollen of M.

Of his many important statements I will here give only a single one as an example, namely, that 'every ovule in a pod of Crinum capense fertilised by C.

If we admire the several ingenious contrivances, by which the flowers of the orchis and of many other plants are fertilised through insect agency, can we consider as equally perfect the elaboration by our fir-trees of dense clouds of pollen, in order that a few granules may be wafted by a chance breeze on to the ovules?

I am strengthened in this conviction by a remarkable statement repeatedly made by Gärtner, namely, that if even the less fertile hybrids be artificially fertilised with hybrid pollen of the same kind, their fertility, notwithstanding the frequent ill effects of manipulation, sometimes decidedly increases, and goes on increasing.

For these plants have been found to yield seed to the pollen of a distinct species, though quite sterile with their own pollen, notwithstanding that their own pollen was found to be perfectly good, for it fertilised distinct species.

Nevertheless these facts show on what slight and mysterious causes the lesser or greater fertility of species when crossed, in comparison with the same species when self fertilised, sometimes depends.

From this extreme degree of sterility we have self fertilised hybrids producing a greater and greater number of seeds up to perfect fertility.

Their myths tell of 'gods' who drove through the sky in barks and fireships, descended from the stars, fertilised their ancestors and then returned to the stars again.

At first the lovely child of earth, Ninlil, was unwilling to be fertilised by a 'god'.

Even so, you can donate semen, you can reimplant an externally fertilised ovum if it's the mother's heredity that's at fault rather than the father's - the hole, that's available as a commercial service right here in this country!

Actually tailoring the genes in a fertilised human ovum so that the resulting baby will have specified talents, some of them - by implication - unprecedented in human history.

The fertilised egg did not develop any further, but neither was it necessarily flushed away or reabsorbed.

That ovary, of course, became a testicle, but - with a bit of cellular finessing and some intricate plumbing - the fertilised egg could remain safe, viable and unchanging in the testicle while that organ did its bit in inseminating the woman who had been a man and whose sperm had done the original fertilising.

If the woman who had been a man also delayed the development of her fertilised egg, then it was possible to synchronise the growth of the two fetuses and the birth of the babies.

Most of the above flowers were never fertilised owing to the exclusion of bees.