'Cross fertilization' definitions:
Definition of 'Cross fertilization'
From: GCIDE
- Fertilization \Fer`ti*li*za"tion\, n.
- 1. The act or process of rendering fertile. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Biol.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. [1913 Webster]
- Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom.
- Cross fertilization, fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under Cross, a. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cross fertilization'
From: GCIDE
- Cross \Cross\ (kr[o^]s), a.
- 1. Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting. [1913 Webster]
- The cross refraction of the second prism. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse. "A cross fortune." --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- The cross and unlucky issue of my design. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
- The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvelously cross to the common experience of mankind. --South. [1913 Webster]
- We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, One must be happy by the other's loss. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman. [1913 Webster]
- He had received a cross answer from his mistress. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other. [1913 Webster]
- Cross action (Law), an action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject matter, as upon the same contract. --Burrill.
- Cross aisle (Arch.), a transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church.
- Cross axle. (a) (Mach.) A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press. (b) A driving axle, with cranks set at an angle of 90[deg] with each other.
- Cross bedding (Geol.), oblique lamination of horizontal beds.
- Cross bill. See in the Vocabulary.
- Cross bitt. Same as Crosspiece.
- Cross bond, a form of bricklaying, in which the joints of one stretcher course come midway between those of the stretcher courses above and below, a course of headers and stretchers intervening. See Bond, n., 8.
- Cross breed. See in the Vocabulary.
- Cross breeding. See under Breeding.
- Cross buttock, a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. --Smollet.
- Cross country, across the country; not by the road. "The cross-country ride." --Cowper.
- Cross fertilization, the fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See Fertilization.
- Cross file, a double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheels.
- Cross fire (Mil.), lines of fire, from two or more points or places, crossing each other.
- Cross forked. (Her.) See under Forked.
- Cross frog. See under Frog.
- Cross furrow, a furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field.
- Cross handle, a handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur. --Knight.
- Cross lode (Mining), a vein intersecting the true or principal lode.
- Cross purpose. See Cross-purpose, in the Vocabulary.
- Cross reference, a reference made from one part of a book or register to another part, where the same or an allied subject is treated of.
- Cross sea (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions.
- Cross stroke, a line or stroke across something, as across the letter t.
- Cross wind, a side wind; an unfavorable wind.
- Cross wires, fine wires made to traverse the field of view in a telescope, and moved by a screw with a graduated head, used for delicate astronomical observations; spider lines. Fixed cross wires are also used in microscopes, etc.
- Syn: Fretful; peevish. See Fretful. [1913 Webster]