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fertilizin

noun

Etymology

From fertilize + -in.

  1. derived from fertilis
  2. derived from fertile
  3. derived from fertile
  4. suffixed as fertilize — “fertile + ize”
  5. suffixed as fertilizin — “fertilize + in”

Definitions

  1. A hypothetical substance supposed to be the active agent in fertilization, having two…

    A hypothetical substance supposed to be the active agent in fertilization, having two side chains, one reacting with the sperm, the other with the ovum.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fertilizin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA