HyperDic: cross-pollinate

English > 1 sense of the word *cross-pollinate*:
VERB	body	cross-pollinate, pollinate, pollenate	fertilize by transfering pollen

cross-pollinate > pronunciation
Sounds	krao'spaa'lahney.t
Rhymes	abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt...

English > *cross-pollinate*: 1 sense > verb 1, body
Meaning	fertilize by transfering pollen.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something
Synonyms	pollinate, pollenate
Broader	inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise	introduce semen into (a female)
Spanish	fertilizar, polinizar
Catalan	pol·linitzar
Nouns	cross-pollination	fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another