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English noun: impregnation | |||
| 1. | impregnation (substance) material with which something is impregnated | ||
| Samples | The impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | material, stuff | ||
| 2. | impregnation (process) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | ||
| Samples | The impregnation of wood with preservative. The saturation of cotton with ether. | ||
| Synonyms | saturation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | permeation, pervasion, suffusion | ||
| Part meronym | plastination | ||
| 3. | impregnation (event) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | ||
| Synonyms | fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | conception, creation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cross-fertilisation, cross-fertilization, pollenation, pollination, self-fertilisation, self-fertilization, superfecundation, superfetation | ||
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