(n) fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species, Syn. cross-fertilisation, Ant. self-fertilization
(n) interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial, Syn. cross-fertilisation, Example:the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts
(n) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant, Syn. fertilisation, fecundation, impregnation