to inseminate

Examples

• All

• Decreasing the number of effectual fertile spermatozoa inseminated from around 70,106 to 30,106 did not result in a decrease in pregnancy rate, birth rate, and litter size.

  Academic text (2015)

• When a man cannot produce sperm or his sperm count is low, the wife is artificially inseminated with the sperm of an anonymous donor or the husband.

  Academic text (2007)

• Oh, uh, I was just inseminated a few days ago.

  The Back-Up Plan (2010)

• However, you may not inseminate that second clutch with the eggs.

• Indeed, the bulls inseminate some 600,000 females in less than a month.

  Academic text (2006)

• You want to inseminate right around the time that the follicle's going to be dropping and ready to ovulate.

  Tabula Rasa (2018)

• Cullen will collect semen from the hat to inseminate a female falcon.

  Academic text (2009)

• Queens from managed colonies are inseminated by as many as 17 drones on their mating flights.

  Academic text (1996)

• The pregnancy rate and birth rate of the one-time insemination group were extremely significantly lower than those inseminated twice or three times.

  Academic text (2015)

• The number of inseminated vixens per technician varied from 258 to 286, with an average of 273.

  Academic text (2015)

Synonyms

F

to fertilize

vsto inseminate

• Specialized

34 4.0

To make an egg or plant cell start growing by joining it with a male cell

involves inserting semen into a female reproductive tract rather than cell fusion

I

to impregnate

vsto inseminate

32 7.2

To make a woman, female animal, or an egg start to grow a baby

introduces semen into the reproductive tract as the action, not the resulting pregnancy

F

to fecundate

vsto inseminate

• Specialized

9.9

To make a living thing able to have babies or produce fruit

inserts semen into a female body specifically, not the broader act of making fertile

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology