what does cross-fertilisation mean?
CROSS-FERTILISATION as NOUN
- Meaning
- interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial
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- the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts
Hypernyms(s) cross-fertilisation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species
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Hypernyms(s) cross-fertilisation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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