insemination

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

insemination (countable and uncountable, plural inseminations)

1. A sowing of seed; the act of inseminating.
2. The introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating (making pregnant).
   • 2010, Jeffrey Boss, Human Consciousness of God in the Book of Job, page 158:

     At the same time there is no fantasy, as there is in the teleportage of science fiction, or in the Greek myth that requires the insemination of a woman by a swan.

• inseminate