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insemination

insemination

6.7
Putting seeds into soil or adding things such as germs and ideas into a place
  • noun
  • /ˌɪnsəˈmɪneɪʃən/
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  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The insemination, the child.

  • 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.

  • The insemination of new agricultural techniques is essential for sustainable farming.

Synonyms

planting
vsinsemination
34 1.0

Putting seeds or young plants in the ground so they can grow

is broader, covering sowing and figurative introduction into a medium
implantation
vsinsemination
1 6.8

Putting a plant or object into the ground

is wider, including sowing seeds and figurative introduction
seeding
vsinsemination
  • Specialized
1 5.9

Cells move to another body part and start to grow

applies the spread idea to putting seeds or introducing ideas or germs

Compounds

8 4.2

A medical method of putting sperm into a womb to cause pregnancy

How Thorough

planting
34 1.0
insemination
6.7
scattering
1 4.2

Surface Forms

insemination singular
inseminations plural

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.