verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
egg
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Once deposited, she leaves the nest and he immediately fertilizes the eggs .
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Their eggs become female only if fertilized .
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Only one sperm fertilizes an egg , but it evidently requires the backup of many millions of others.
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He fertilizes her eggs and makes a hurried exit.
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Thousands of fertilized sea urchin eggs , starfish and blue clams returned to Earth with the astronauts.
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The male will immediately follow behind, fertilizing the eggs .
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For a pregnancy to occur, one of those sperm must penetrate and fertilize the egg .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After the egg has been fertilized, it will hatch in about 6 weeks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bromeliads with large blooms are fertilized more frequently.
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If an egg is fertilized by a male, it always develops into a female.
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Instead, ducks catch pests before they attack the rice and their manure fertilizes the soil.
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Osiris represented the life-giving waters and the soil fertilized by the Nile.
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Patala is symbolic of gold and the earth's minerals which energize the terrain and fertilize it.
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Salomon Brothers expertise fertilized the rest of Wall Street.
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They are largest in polyandrous birds, where several males fertilize one female, and it is not hard to see why.
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When its eggs are fertilized, sometimes more than one sperm penetrates the egg.