Fertilization /(?)/

Fer·ti·li·za·tion

Fertilization

n.
  1. The act or process of rendering fertile.
  2. The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. (Biol.)

Phrases & Compounds
Close fertilization
the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom.
Cross fertilization
fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under Cross, a.