cross-fertilisation

Nouns

  • (n) fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species cross-fertilization,
  • (n) interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial
    • the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts
    cross-fertilization,

Synonyms

cross-fertilization

Antonyms

self-fertilisation self-fertilization

Words of close approximity