self-fertilizing

And, like all self-fertilizing bureaucracies, the operation began to -- you'll pardon the expression -- mushroom into a massive cloud of covert nuclear activity.

Tom Alderman: "Bomb Power," or How the Atomic Bomb Ended a War, Increased Presidential Power and Eroded the Constitution Tom Alderman 2010

And, like all self-fertilizing bureaucracies, the operation began to -- you'll pardon the expression -- mushroom into a massive cloud of covert nuclear activity.

Tom Alderman: "Bomb Power," or How the Atomic Bomb Ended a War, Increased Presidential Power and Eroded the Constitution. 2010

And, like all self-fertilizing bureaucracies, the operation began to -- you'll pardon the expression -- mushroom into a massive cloud of covert nuclear activity.

Tom Alderman: "Bomb Power," or How the Atomic Bomb Ended a War, Increased Presidential Power and Eroded the Constitution 2010

We become our own self-fertilizing, mobile edible estates.

Michael Jackson as Landscape Architecture 2008

Sexual dimorphism was a shift from mothers self-fertilizing to being fertilized by a partner.

"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?" Ann Althouse 2009

Flirtatious stigmas and stamens reflect the self-fertilizing nonchalance of a fruit which is edible when it borders on rotting.

Medlar: The Fruit of Misunderstanding Michelle Krell Kydd 2008

We become our own self-fertilizing, mobile edible estates.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

Flirtatious stigmas and stamens reflect the self-fertilizing nonchalance of a fruit which is edible when it borders on rotting.

Archive 2008-02-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2008

He was not successful in his quest for gold; however, five centuries later, it appears that he may have unknowingly stumbled upon something even more valuable than gold: rich, self-fertilizing, and self maintaining soil.

Making Terra Preta Soil: Ramona's Recipe for Home-Made Dirt 2008

Most notostracans have separate males and females (gonochoristic), but self-fertilizing hermaphrodites are not uncommon.

Crustacea 2008