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The pistil consists of a stigma supported on a style; but in some Compositae, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a rudimentary pistil, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed and is clothed in the usual manner with hairs, which serve to brush the pollen out of the surrounding and conjoined anthers.

Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb 2009

All people have regarded virginity as something sacred, and God has so honored it that he willed that his son be born of a virgin, fecundated, however, by the Holy Ghost.

Satyricon 2007

This might happen (1) by the fecundated ova passing, in the course of their development, under particular circumstances, into higher forms; (2) by the primitive and later organisms producing other organisms without fecundation, out of germs or eggs

Essays 2007

It attracts them together and unites them, and when the germ of a new being is fecundated, the individuals can sleep in peace.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

All the stories of supernatural births recorded in the Classics, where women were specially fecundated by the Spirit of Heaven, are inventions (p. 48).

Lunheng 1962

"Just because, when we hold it in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, -- where death fecundated and life destroyed, -- where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire; -- just for that I hate it."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

Monothelious: a union where one female is fecundated by many males.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

As little as we attribute to the just fecundated {263} egg of man the value of man, although we know that under the right conditions the full man is to be developed out of it, just so little in accordance with that view would the differences of value within the created world be dissolved in a mass of atoms or potencies of a similar value.

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

Only fecundated females feed on blood, and must be fertilized after each batch of eggs.

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

Heaven, as the fecundating principle, was male, and the source of fire; the earth, as the fecundated, was female, and the source of humidity.

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey