CROSS-FERTILISATION as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • 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
  2. Meaning
    • fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) cross-fertilisation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Antonym(s) Hyponym(s) Derived(s)