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- Impregnation - n. - The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.
- Impregnation - n. - The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoon) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation.
- Impregnation - n. - That with which anything is impregnated.
- Impregnation - n. - Intimate mixture; influsion; saturation.
- Impregnation - n. - An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
- Stockwork - n. - A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.
- Polyspermy - n. - Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than one spermatozoon into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum.
- Superfetation - n. - The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation.
- Intercross - v. t. & i. - To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or variety by another; to impregnate by a different species or variety.
- Padding - n. - The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.
- Female - n. - A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.