Cross-fertilisation

Definition: Cross-fertilisation

Cross-fertilisation

Noun

1. Fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species.

Synonym: Cross-fertilisation

Synonym: cross-fertilization (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: cross-fertilisation of information (european union, language), system of cross-fertilisation between species (medicine).

Antonym: self-fertilization (n). (additional references)

Usage Frequency: Cross-fertilisation

"Cross-fertilisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Cross-fertilisation" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90.91%	20	78,262
Adjective (general or positive)	9.09%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	22	N/A

Anagrams: Cross-fertilisation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-s-t-t"
	-5 letters: coalitionists, colorfastness, felicitations, ferrosilicons, fictionalises, isolationists, ossifications, solicitations, transistorise.
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Alternative Orthography: Cross-fertilisation

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 72 6F 73 73 2D 66 65 72 74 69 6C 69 73 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110011 00101101 01100110 01100101 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0072 006F 0073 0073 002D 0066 0065 0072 0074 0069 006C 0069 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Cross-fertilisation

Definition: Cross-fertilisation