SUPERFECUNDATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("superfecundation" is a kind of...):

fecundation; fertilisation; fertilization; impregnation (creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant)

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