VERB
- undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile
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cause to undergo cross-fertilization
Mendel cross-fertilized different kinds of beans
How To Use cross-fertilise In A Sentence
- The two cross-fertilise easily to form a hybrid, which is apparently often sold to un-suspecting buyers who simply ask for bluebells.
- This is precisely how astrological ideas cross-fertilise each other and grow.
- Indeed anything remotely "operatic", it seems, is alluded to and/or crudely cross-fertilised with the final through-composed, through-sung, concoction behaving like late Strauss with a Gallic sensibility. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- Another concept which intrigues and impresses the author is the simple idea of London, a large cosmopolitan city which is culturally dominant, a teeming hive where words and ideas rub off each other and cross-fertilise.
- Inevitably she broadened her repertoire to take in mainstream as well as early works and now admits that the two disciplines have cross-fertilised.
- In a university students live together, encourage, support and cross-fertilise each other.
- These controlled environments allow growers to use natural predators to fight pests and use bumble bees to cross-fertilise the plants.
- Canola pollen can also cross-fertilise related plants such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and many common weed species.
- This pairing of allied opposites enabled writers to cross-fertilise the two disciplines and personalities to help build on-screen tensions.