Word Meanings - CROSS-FERTILIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.
Related words: (words related to CROSS-FERTILIZE)
- FLOWERY-KIRTLED
Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton. - FLOWER-DE-LUCE
A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - FLOWERY
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China. - FLOWERLESSNESS
State of being without flowers. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - FLOWERLESS
Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants. - INDIVIDUALIZER
One who individualizes. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - POLLENIN
A substance found in the pollen of certain plants. - SPECIES
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, - POLLEN
The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain , a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually - FLOWERPOT
A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown. - FLOWERINESS
The state of being flowery. - PLANTOCRACY
Government by planters; planters, collectively. - PLANTERSHIP
The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. - PLANTLESS
Without plants; barren of vegetation. - PLANT-CANE
A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon. - PLANTED
Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - CAULIFLOWER
An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. - SUBINDIVIDUAL
A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton. - MAYFLOWER
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants. - UNFLOWER
To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher. - SELF-FERTILIZED
Fertilized by pollen from the same flower. - LAMINIPLANTAR
Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks. - GLOBEFLOWER
A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.