Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cross-fertilise

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.93 in modern English

Syllables: cross-fer-tilise
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of cross-fertilize.

British usage

Example Sentences

""And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation. "You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation."

Etymology

From cross- + fertilise.

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

cross-fertilises (present, singular) cross-fertilising (participle, present) cross-fertilised (participle, past) cross-fertilised (past)

Phrases

cross-fertilisation

Frequently Paired Words

cross-fertilisation

Synonyms

cross-fertilize

Questions

What does cross-fertilise mean?: Alternative form of cross-fertilize.
Where does cross-fertilise come from?: From cross- + fertilise.

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