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cross-fertilization
 
Noun cross-fertilization has 2 senses
  1. cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation - fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species
    --1 is a kind of fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation, impregnation
    Antonyms: self-fertilization, self-fertilisation
    --1 has particulars: allogamy
    Derived forms: verb cross-fertilize1, verb cross-fertilize2
  2. cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation - interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial; "the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts"
    --2 is a kind of interchange, reciprocation, give-and-take
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