Topic: PLANTS
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cross-fertilize also cross-fertilise British English [transitive]
1HBP to combine the male sex cells from one type of plant with female sex cells from another
2 to influence someone or something with ideas from other areas :
In a university students live together, encourage, support and cross-fertilise each other.
In a university students live together, encourage, support and cross-fertilise each other. —cross-fertilization noun [uncountable]
