impregnation
(noun)
noun
1. material with which something is impregnated
- the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue
Definition categories: substance, material, stuff
2. the process of totally saturating something with a substance
- the impregnation of wood with preservative
Similar word(s): saturation
Definition categories: process, permeation, pervasion, suffusion
3. creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
Similar word(s): fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization
Definition categories: event, conception, creation