Usually means: Mix ideas from different sources.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word cross-fertilize:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cross-fertilize: Merriam-Webster
  2. cross-fertilize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cross-fertilize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cross-fertilize, cross-fertilize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cross-fertilize: Vocabulary.com
  6. cross-fertilize: Wordnik
  7. cross-fertilize: Wiktionary
  8. cross-fertilize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cross-fertilize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cross-fertilize: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cross-fertilize: Dictionary.com
  12. cross-fertilize: Rhymezone
  13. cross-fertilize: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cross-fertilize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cross-fertilize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cross-fertilize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cross-fertilize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. cross-fertilize: Medical dictionary

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▸ verb:  To undergo (or cause to undergo) cross-fertilization.

Similar:
cross, crosshybridize, cross-pollinate, crosspollinate, outcross, intercross, crossbreed, cross-breed, subcross, crosscontaminate, more...

Opposite:
self-fertilize, self-pollinate, inbreed

Types:
hybridize, crossbreed, outbreed, more...

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Similar:
cross, crosshybridize, cross-pollinate, crosspollinate, outcross, intercross, crossbreed, cross-breed, subcross, crosscontaminate, more...

Opposite:
self-fertilize, self-pollinate, inbreed

Types:
hybridize, crossbreed, outbreed, more...



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