insemination
- noun
- /ˌɪnsəˈmɪneɪʃən/
- Perry rekindled a childhood love for cattle and dairy farming, including an interest in a small bovine insemination business in California's Central Valley.
Examples
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The possibilities available for couples contemplating parenthood in unconventional ways under these new reproductive techniques are: 1. Artificial Insemination 2.
Academic text (2007) -
The farmer ensured proper insemination of the fields to achieve a good crop yield.
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This system is all about just doing the basics, so there is no artificial insemination or imported feed.
Blog text (15) -
"You were about to say that you prefer the old-fashioned method of insemination."
Fiction book (2001) -
So there are post pollination and post insemination mechanisms of isolation.
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The insemination, the child.
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One of Ms. Perkins' initial projects was the magazine program "Country Life." This program was designed to deliver information on "literacy, fertilizers, artificial insemination, and numerous other innovations."
Academic text (1992) -
From insemination to dissemination, animal to plant, the reproduction of plants relies on winds and inter-species (Miller 2002).
Academic text (2017) -
They discussed the insemination of innovative ideas during the team meeting.
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The insemination of new agricultural techniques is essential for sustainable farming.
Synonyms
Putting seeds or young plants in the ground so they can grow
Putting a plant or object into the ground
Cells move to another body part and start to grow
Compounds
- Specialized
A medical method of putting sperm into a womb to cause pregnancy
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
insemination = inseminate (opaque) = in + semin + ate + ion
This is a regular action noun formed from the verb 'inseminate' with the suffix '-ion'.
Etymology
Insemination comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and semen 'seed'. So it originally meant 'putting seed into', which is an easy image for sowing fields or for introducing germs or ideas into a place.