fertilizable (fertilizabl)

[ or as perfect female insects or their eggs. The neuters of Polistes gallica are distinguished from the perfect fertilizable females. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 384. Mr. Darwin's inquiries have shown how generally the fertilization of plants is due to the agency of insects; and how certain plants, being fertilizable only by insects of a certain structure, are limited to regions inhabited by insects of this structure. H. Spencer , Prin. of Biol., § 105. Also spelled fertilisable . fertilization (ferti-li-za's hon), n . [= F. fer til is at i on Pg. fertilização ; as fertilize + -ation .] 2188 We have only scapt the ferular to come under the fescu of an Imprimatur. Milton, Areopagitica (ed. Arber), p. 56. Fists and ferulars, rods and scourges, have been the usual dainties in schools. = Hartlib , Reformation of Schools, p. 13. ferulel (fer'öl or -il), n. [Formerly also ferrule ; = F.. férule = Sp. Pg. It. ferula = Dan. ferle Sw . ferla , ferula , a rod, whip, walking-stick, cane, a slender branch, anch, the plant giant fennel, ferire , strike.] 1. A reed; a cane. Yf we have the brere Or ferule , after harvest whenne oon with The nyght is day, lette cutte hem of right nere The grounde. 2. A cane, rod, or flat piece of wood, as a ruler, used for the punishment of children in schools by striking some part of the body, particularly the palm of the hand. As boys that slink From ferule and the trespa -chiding eye, Away we stole. Tennyson, Prince , v. 1. The act or proce of rendering land fertile, ferulel (fer'öl or -il), v . t .; pret. and pp. feruled , fruitful, or productive. The Egyptians depend entirely upon their river for the fertilization of the soil. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 2. 2. Fecundation or impregnation of animals or plants; specifically, in bot., the proce by which the pollen reaches and acts upon the vules, and a ures the production fruit; also, the analogous proce in cryptogams. Fertilization , as ordinarily understood, only differs in the two conjugating bodies being unlike that is, in their having undergone differentiation into antherozoid and oospore, the male and female bodies respectively. Also spelled fertilisation. fertilization. See close2. Encyc. Brit ., III. 599.