I've met catenate, hyaline, and fecundate, just not often. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 136] Reference
#509 ::: Fragano Ledgister ::: view all by ::: March 05, 2010, 09:03 AM: "Catenate" is is my vocabulary, as is "fecundate". From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 136] Reference
We say, to fertilize (chiefly, however, when speaking of plants) or to fecundate an ovum, or to impregnate a female or woman, and to conceive a child. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference
Gallants: -- fecundate aye springeth adultery's seed. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
I tried to hatch some of the eggs I had endeavoured to fecundate. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Natural History and Agriculture] Reference
The sun is the agent of the generative power of the sky, and his beams fecundate the earth, so that from her all life is produced. From Wordnik.com. [The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History] Reference
Whilst the bird is probing the flower, the pollen of the stamens is rubbed in to the lower part of its head, and thus carried from one flower to fecundate another. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
May, the month dear to poets, is frequently but an uninterrupted succession of showers to fecundate the earth; its symbol, an array of outspread umbrellas in our streets. From Wordnik.com. [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference
Every human being has a moment when his heart is easily touched, when the tears of grief will flow; and those tears may fecundate a generous thought which might lead to repentance. From Wordnik.com. [My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt] Reference
One seeks the secret of vegetable nature; he watches the slow life of plants; he notes the parity of motion among all the species, and the parity of their nutrition; he finds everywhere the need of sun and air and water, to fecundate and nourish them. From Wordnik.com. [Catherine De Medici] Reference
The third variety of hermaphrodites embraces those animals in which the male organs are so disposed as not to fecundate the ova of the same body, but require the co-operation of two individuals, notwithstanding the co-existence in each of the organs of both sexes. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Thus she finds herself in a condition to undertake a journey which circumstances may prolong; thus this condition was necessary; and as every thing is harmonious in the laws of nature, the origin of the males corresponds with that of the females, which they are to fecundate. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
He saw the queen lay eggs, which were bedewed by the males, and from which larvæ were hatched, consequently, he could not hesitate advancing as a fact demonstrated, that male bees fecundate the queen's eggs in the manner of frogs and fishes, that is, after they are produced. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
How could one fecundate the universal doubt so that it should give birth to a new faith? and what sort of illusion, what divine falsehood of any kind could be made to germinate in the contemporary world, ravaged as it had been upon all sides, broken up by a century of science?. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5] Reference
It is imagined that the narrow aperture of the smaller cells, and the manner in which the form of this aperture compels the queen to bend forward, exercise a certain pressure upon the spermatheca, in consequence of which the spermatozoa spring forth and fecundate the egg as it passes. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Bee] Reference
I have already mentioned the fact that the larva, after its metamorphosis, must be freed from its cell by other bees, and have told how the working-bees in autumn kill the drones, so that they may not have to feed a number of useless mouths throughout the winter, and how they only spare them when they are wanted in order to fecundate a new queen. From Wordnik.com. [Unconscious Memory] Reference
Besides all this, here are we, the great body of teachers in the numberless medical schools of the Union, some of us lecturing to crowds who clap and stamp in the cities, some of us wandering over the country, like other professional fertilizers, to fecundate the minds of less demonstrative audiences at various scientific stations; all of us talking habitually to those supposed to know less than ourselves, and loving to claim as much for our art as we can, not to say for our own schools, and possibly indirectly for our own practical skill. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
Love and the sun fecundate its bloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
Ribble, being sufficient to fecundate the eggs. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Natural History and Agriculture] Reference
They were: catenate, hyaline, longanimity, apotropaic, delitescent, and fecundate. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 136] Reference
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