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Cross-fertilisation

noun

Fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species. Synonym: cross-fertilization.

Interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial. Synonym: cross-fertilization.

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"Cross-fertilisation" Quotes from Famous Books

... I would venture to suggest that we might well exchange very many English people of such limited brain capacity for one Ludwig Mond. To shut the door to men is to shut the doors to talent, and talent produces its best by cross-fertilisation. ...

— The Better Germany in War Time - Being some Facts towards Fellowship • Harold Picton

... will be held to show that you consider them so! The contrivance in Utricularia and Dionaea, and in fact in Drosera too, seems fully as great and complex as in Orchids, but there is not the same motive force. Fertilisation and cross-fertilisation are important ends enough to lead to any modification, but can we suppose mere nourishment to be so important, seeing that it is so easily and almost universally obtained by extrusion of roots and leaves? Here are plants which lose their ...

— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Marchant

Words linked to "Cross-fertilisation" : interchange, allogamy, reciprocation, fecundation, self-fertilization, impregnation, fertilization, fertilisation, give-and-take, cross-fertilise