1
the action or process of fertilizing an egg, female animal, or plant, involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote.
2
the transfer of pollen to a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant to allow fertilization.
3
the material or protoplasm within a living cell, excluding the nucleus.
4
the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
5
a rigid layer of polysaccharides lying outside the plasma membrane of the cells of plants, fungi, and bacteria. In the algae and higher plants it consists mainly of cellulose.
6
the central and most important part of an object, movement, or group, forming the basis for its activity and growth.
7
a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.
8
a small group forming a nucleus of political activity, typically a secret, subversive one.
