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cross-fertilization

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Noun

interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial
- the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts

fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species

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Antonyms:
self-fertilization self-fertilisation

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