inseminate
verb (specialist)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they inseminate | |
| he / she / it inseminates | |
| past simple inseminated | |
| past participle inseminated | |
| -ing form inseminating |
- inseminate somebody/something
to put sperm into a woman or female animal in order to make her pregnant 使受精；授精 Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin inseminat- ‘sown’, from the verb inseminare, from in- ‘into’ + seminare ‘plant, sow’ (from semen, semin- ‘seed, semen’).