Impregnation (Noun)
Meaning 1
The process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 2
Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural events.
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- Cross-fertilization
- Pollenation
- Superfecundation
- Self-fertilization
- Cross-fertilisation
- Superfetation
- Pollination
- Self-fertilisation
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Meaning 3
Material with which something is impregnated; "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue".
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Nouns denoting substances.