Noun

• S: (n) concept, conception, construct (an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances)
• S: (n) conception (the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity (activities associated with sexual intercourse) "they had sex in the back seat"
• S: (n) bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity (an organic process that takes place in the body) "respiratory activity"
• S: (n) organic process, biological process (a process occurring in living organisms)
• S: (n) process, physical process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states) "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
• S: (n) physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) creation, conception (the event that occurred at the beginning of something) "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation, 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)
• S: (n) pollination, pollenation (transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant)
• S: (n) cross-pollination (fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another)
• S: (n) self-pollination (fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers to the stigma of the same flower)
• S: (n) cleistogamy (the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers)
• S: (n) cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation (fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species)
• S: (n) allogamy (cross-fertilization in plants)
• S: (n) self-fertilization, self-fertilisation (fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from the same individual)
• S: (n) autogamy (self-fertilization in plants)
• S: (n) superfecundation (fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males))
• S: (n) superfetation (fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time) "superfetation is normal in some animal species"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design (the creation of something in the mind)