SUPERFECUNDATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superfecundation mean? 

• SUPERFECUNDATION (noun)
  The noun SUPERFECUNDATION has 1 sense:

1. fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males)

  Familiarity information: SUPERFECUNDATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERFECUNDATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("superfecundation" is a kind of...):

fecundation; fertilisation; fertilization; impregnation (creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant)