Noun
interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial
fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species
Source: WordNetBecause I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS. Philip Emeagwali
Ghetto is impotence. Cultural cross-fertilization is the only possibility for human development. Isaac Leib Peretz
I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization. Susan Vreeland
the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts Source: Internet
Certainly this period of dissemination and cultural cross-fertilization definitively shifted the balance of intellectual initiative from south to north. Source: Internet
Thus, the desirable (for human management) traits of einkorn could be perpetuated at less risk of cross-fertilization with wild plants which might have traits—e.g. smaller seeds, shattering seed heads, etc. -- less desirable for human management. Source: Internet