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Meanings of internal fertilization in English

Russian
внутреннее оплодотворение
Portuguese
fertilização interna
Catalan
fecundació interna
Spanish
fertilzación interna

Union of an egg cell with a sperm during sexual reproduction inside the body of a parent; occurrence of internal insemination as the mode of combining sperm and egg.

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внутреннее оплодотворение
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Examples for "external fertilization"
Examples for "external fertilization"
1
By contrast, in some taxa with external fertilization such as fish, exposure to semen promotes spawning behaviors.
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Usage of internal fertilization in English
1
And internal fertilization can be a bit difficult if you don't have limbs to help you grasp your partner.
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2
Like sharks the skeletons of chimaeras are composed of cartilage, and the males have claspers for internal fertilization of females.
Radio NZ
3
The seminal plasma of some species with internal fertilization contains anti-aphrodisiac molecules that deter promiscuity in post-copulatory females, conferring fitness benefits to the ejaculating male.
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