Crossword clues for impregnation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impregnation \Im`preg*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. impr['e]gnation, LL. impraegnatio.]
The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.
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(Biol.) The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozo["o]n) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation.
Note: In the broadest biological sense, impregnation, or sexual generation, consists simply in the coalescence of two similar masses of protoplasmic matter, either derived from different parts of the same organism or from two distinct organisms. From the single mass, which results from the fusion, or coalescence, of these two masses, a new organism develops.
That with which anything is impregnated.
--Derham.Intimate mixture; infusion; saturation.
(Mining) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
--Raymond.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "making or becoming pregnant," from Old French impregnacion, from Late Latin impregnationem (nominative impregnatio), from impraegnare (see impregnate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of making pregnant; fertilization. 2 The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance. 3 That with which anything is impregnated. 4 (context geology English) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
WordNet
n. material with which something is impregnated; "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue"
the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether" [syn: saturation]
creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant [syn: fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation]
Usage examples of "impregnation".
Virgil sings the impregnation of the joyous earth, by the Ether, its spouse, that descends upon its bosom, fertilizing it with rains.
One minor physiological variation between humans and cows or sheep was very significant for my purposes: In human females the length of the oviducts before they unite to form the corpus uteri is short, leaving less time and space to catch the fertilized egg before it reaches the endometrium and undergoes impregnation there: at which point there can be no hope of transplantation.
The antipathy communicated to the metal by its being soaked for a certain time in an alkaline solution prevents impregnation.
After great ecstasy, along the plains, What foulest impregnation of her sight Transformed the scene to multitudinous troops Of human sketches, quaver-figures, bent, As were they winter sedges, broken hoops, Dry udder, vineless poles, worm-eaten posts, With features like the flowers defaced by deluge rains?
This quasi-criminal programme of impregnation under hypothalamic anaesthetization can lead only to disaster —of this I am convinced!
This notion of majors and vocations was not easy for me to understand: Brickett Ranunculus had been a stud -- that is, a major as it were in the impregnation of nannies -- but his excellence in this line was a feature of his goatly magnificence in general, just as Mary Appenzeller's record milk-yield was of hers.
If, after a reasonable time, impregnation doesnt follow, the spirit rebels and artificial insemination is resorted to.
If, after a reasonable time, impregnation doesn't follow, the spirit rebels and artificial insemination is resorted to.
So there you have a three-step process -- increased visual acuity means increased success at getting food, further doses of psilocybin mean more sexual activity with more instances of successful impregnation and birthing of offspring and, finally, contact with the language-catalysing psychedelic tremendum that even for people as sophisticated as ourselves looms as the most tremendous, shocking and challenging mystery in our world.