Usually means: Mixing ideas for creative innovation.
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  1. cross-fertilise: Vocabulary.com
  2. cross-fertilise: Dictionary.com
  3. cross-fertilise: Rhymezone
  4. cross-fertilise: FreeDictionary.org
  5. cross-fertilise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  6. cross-fertilise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. cross-fertilise: Wiktionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cross-fertilise: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ verb:  (British spelling) Alternative form of cross-fertilize. [To undergo (or cause to undergo) cross-fertilization.]


Opposite:
self-fertilize, self-pollinate, inbreed

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Opposite:
self-fertilize, self-pollinate, inbreed




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