fecundation

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English

Etymology

From fecund +‎ -ation.

Noun

fecundation (countable and uncountable, plural fecundations)

  1. The process whereby a new organism is produced by fertilization.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 234:
      In Neolithic agricultural societies, the sacrificed male and his remains were transferred to the fields needing fecundation, and there the Great Mother becomes the soil receiving the fertilizing blood.

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