Meanings
plural cross-fertilizations · alternative cross-fertilisation
- broadlycountableuncountableThe mutual exchange of ideas or concepts from different fields for mutual benefit.
His fame led to some curious cultural cross-fertilizations. In Japan, the Yamamoto-clad singer stirred up a singular fanaticism—so much so that Japanese charter flights traveled all the way to Kinshasa, while in Tokyo, clone bands skilled at his kind of soukous multiplied.
2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 183
Synonyms & antonyms
nounfertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species
nouninterchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Tagalog tawidsapunla
- tawidsapunlafertilization by the union of gametes of different plants (sometimes of different species)
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