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fecundate

verb

Etymology

From Latin fecundātus, perfect passive participle of fecundō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, fecund + -ate. Compare French féconder.

  1. borrowed from fecundātus

Definitions

  1. To make fertile.

  2. To inseminate.

    • The pollen of plants is the fecundating power, and consists of a number of small sacs, invisible to the naked eye, in which a fluid exists, which is analogous to the spermatic fluid in man and animals.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fecundate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fecundate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at fecundate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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