impregnation

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noun

1. material with which something is impregnated
- the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue
• Hypernyms:
material, stuff
2. the process of totally saturating something with a substance
- the impregnation of wood with preservative
- the saturation of cotton with ether
• Syn:
saturation
• Derivationally related forms:
impregnate
• Hypernyms:
permeation, pervasion, suffusion
• Part Holonyms:
plastination
3. creation by the physical union of male and female gametes;
of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
• Syn:
fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation
• Derivationally related forms:
impregnate, fecundate (for: fecundation), fertilize (for: fertilization)
• Hypernyms:
creation, conception
• Hyponyms:
pollination, pollenation, cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation, self-fertilization,
self-fertilisation, superfecundation, superfetation

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation, saturation