0 the mixing of the ideas, customs, etc. of different places or groups of people, to produce a better result -- （思想、风俗等方面）相互得益的交流，互相的影响
If the seeds are brought to the surface and eventually establish adult plants, cross-fertilization may result in combinations of genes which would not otherwise arise.
His treatment of this topic is more effective in noting the potential for cross-fertilization in the use of research methodologies than in clearly establishing causality or intentionality in other species.
Eventually, however, there was cross-fertilization between the regions.
History will be examined as an ongoing cross-fertilization of ideas, rather than as a fixed linear chronology.
To fully realize the potential that the cross-fertilization of these disciplines may yield, we must make an ongoing commitment to fostering interdisciplinary work addressing multiple levels of analysis.
This sophisticated cross-fertilization between the urban experience of polite consumerism and the visual representation of industry suggests widespread tolerance, and even active appreciation, of urban manufacturing.
This cultural cross-fertilization complicates the social and economic distinctions which the modern historian might wish to draw.
Fourth, it is important that cross-fertilization takes place between the various domains of bilingualism.
