superfecundation

1. 1.

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

   Broaderfertilization

Other forms of superfecundation

plural

superfecundations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about superfecundation

What does superfecundation mean?

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

How many syllables are in superfecundation?

superfecundation has 7 syllables: su-per-fe-cun-da-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

Is superfecundation a common word?

superfecundation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.