fecundation

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.

Translations

process whereby a new organism is produced by fertilization — see fertilization