to inseminate
- verb
- /ɪnˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/
- Using a tool, gardeners can inseminate their garden beds with a variety of seeds.
Examples
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So now what we're going to do is we're going to actually kind of artificially inseminate these cucumbers here.
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Farmers often inseminate their fields with grass seeds in early spring.
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To increase crop yields, they typically inseminate various plants at the same time.
Synonyms
To put seeds or young plants into the soil so they grow
To plant seeds in the ground so they grow
To put seeds in the ground to grow plants
To scatter seeds widely over the ground
To put seeds in the ground so they can grow
To plant seeds in the ground so they can grow
Antonyms
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
inseminate = insemin (semi-transparent) = in + semin + ate
While 'insemin' is recognizable, the specific agricultural meaning may not be immediately clear to all learners.
Etymology
Inseminate comes from in- 'into' and semen 'seed', and it was once used in a plain gardening way to mean 'putting seed into' the ground. So to inseminate can also mean to sow or plant seeds.