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adj. - Impregnated by its own pollen.

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  • Perhaps there had been, once, when the air was thick enough to support insects, but now most of the Martian plant-life was self-fertilised.
  • Verbascum, fertilised by flies and bees, but also self-fertilised;
  • Nevertheless, the self-fertilised flowers produced an abundance of seed.
  • You suggest the comparison of the growth of plants produced from self-fertilised and crossed seeds.
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