'Illegitimate fertilization' definitions:
Definition of 'Illegitimate fertilization'
From: GCIDE
- Illegitimate \Il`le*git"i*mate\, a.
- 1. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word. [1913 Webster]
- Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. --Darwin. [1913 Webster]