1. Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
   "The impregnation of the egg occurred shortly after mating";
   - fertilization, fertilisation [Brit], fecundation
    
2. The process of totally saturating something with a substance
   "the impregnation of wood with preservative";
   - saturation
    
3. Material with which something is impregnated
   "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue"

Derived forms: impregnations

Type of: conception, creation, material, permeation, pervasion, stuff, suffusion

Part of: plastination

Encyclopedia: Impregnation