英和和英

語源

From cross- +‎ fertilization.

名詞

cross-fertilization (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cross-fertilizations)

1. Fertilization by the union of gametes of different plants (sometimes of different species).
2. (by extension) The mutual exchange of ideas or concepts from different fields for mutual benefit.
   • 2002, Frank Tenaille, Steven Toussaint, Hope Sandrine, transl., Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 183:

     His fame led to some curious cultural cross-fertilizations. In Japan, the Yamamoto-clad singer stirred up a singular fanaticism—so much so that Japanese charter flights traveled all the way to Kinshasa, while in Tokyo, clone bands skilled at his kind of soukous multiplied.