WordNet
self-fertilisation
n. fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from the same individual [syn: self-fertilization] [ant: cross-fertilization]
Usage examples of "self-fertilisation".
In many other cases, far from there being any aids for self-fertilisation, there are special contrivances, as I could show from the writings of C.
How strange that the pollen and stigmatic surface of the same flower, though placed so close together, as if for the very purpose of self-fertilisation, should in so many cases be mutually useless to each other!