impregnation

Nouns

  • (n) material with which something is impregnated
    • the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue
  • (n) the process of totally saturating something with a substance
    • the impregnation of wood with preservative
    • the saturation of cotton with ether
    saturation,
  • (n) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization,

Synonyms

saturation fecundation fertilisation fertilization

Words of close approximity