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self-fertile
[ self-fur-tlor, especially British, -tahyl, self- ]
adjective
- capable of self-fertilization.
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-fertile1
Example Sentences
Even self-fertile varieties, Olson says, will produce much more fruit with a little help from its friends.
While some varieties may be self-fertile, many fruit trees require a second variety blooming simultaneously for cross-pollination, so you’ll need space for not one, but two plants.
While many container varieties are self-fertile, you’ll get even more fruit when you grow more than one variety.
Originally native to China, this self-fertile selection can be counted on to reliably produce a crop of gorgeous berries in Pacific Northwest gardens.
But this connectome was for only one sex, the hermaphrodite — a self-fertile individual that is considered the worm’s female equivalent.
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