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interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial
the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts - fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species
How To Use cross-fertilization In A Sentence
- Cowboys & Aliens" has its own cross-fertilization. Hollywood Frontiers: Outer Space and the Wild West
- The large waves of migration of the modern world, along with the instant technology we've devised (television, radio, movies, the Internet), encourage verbal cross-fertilization.
- This means that each seed contains not only the embryo that resulted from cross-fertilization (called a gametic embryo), but also several 4: Multipurpose trees
- In the 1980s, the early years of the NAR, there was significant cross-fertilization between Reconstructionists and Pentecostalism. Julie Ingersoll: C. Peter Wagner: Dominion Theology And Postmillennialism On NPR
- Mark Shea points out the synergy that results from the cross-fertilization of cultures: July 6th, 2009
- The large waves of migration of the modern world, along with the instant technology we've devised (television, radio, movies, the Internet), encourage verbal cross-fertilization.
- While the flower is fully capable of cross-fertilization, the tree is so self-compatible that the majority of the fruits are usually self-fertilized.
- The idea had not been all that unique, just the lucky cross-fertilization of one technology with another, Stone the catalyst. CORMORANT
- In his book on orchids he documents the elaborate frills and furbelows, gimmicks and traps, that lure and exploit insect pollinators, thereby ensuring cross-fertilization.
- A lot of ideas in science come when people come together, from cross-fertilization of ideas.
