Definition of Self-fertilised

1. Adjective. Fertilized by its own pollen.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-fertilised

self-evidency
self-evident
self-evident truth
self-evidently
self-examination
self-examining
self-excitation
self-existence
self-existent
self-explanatory
self-expression
self-feeder
self-feeling
self-fertile
self-fertilisation
self-fertilised (current term)
self-fertilization
self-fertilized
self-flagellation
self-flattery
self-forgetful
self-fulfilling
self-fulfilling prophecies
self-fulfilling prophecy
self-fulfillment
self-generated
self-giving
self-governing
self-government
self-gratification

Literary usage of Self-fertilised

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin (1876)
"Fertility of plants of crossed and self-fertilised parentage, both lots being fertilised in the same manner—Fertility of the ..."

2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"The crossed plants flowered a little before, mid more profusely than the self-fertilised plants. On opposite sides of another will pot a large ..."

3. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1890)
"As opposed to the theory that there is any absolute need for cross-fertilisation, it has been urged by Mr. Henslow and others that many self-fertilised ..."

4. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1891)
"As opposed to the theory that there is any absolute need for cross-fertilisation, it has been urged by Mr. Henslow and others that many self-fertilised ..."

5. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1889)
"As opposed to the theory that there is any absolute need for cross-fertilisation, it has been urged by Mr. Henslow and others that many self-fertilised ..."

6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"So, also, in a species of Malvaceae (Malva rotundi- folia), Miiller has demonstrated that this plant is self-fertilised, since stigmas and anthers actually ..."

7. Darwinism and Politics: With Two Additional Essays on Human Evolution by David George Ritchie (1901)
"As opposed to the theory that there is any absolute need for cross-fertilisation, it has been urged by Mr. Henslow and others that many self-fertilised ..."

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