- impregnation - material with which something is impregnated; "the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue"
--1 is a kind of material, stuff
- impregnation, saturation - the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether"
--2 is a kind of permeation, pervasion, suffusion
--2 is a part of plastinationDerived form: verb impregnate2 - fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation, impregnation - creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
--3 is a kind of creation, conception
--3 has particulars:pollination, pollenation; cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation; self-fertilization, self-fertilisation; superfecundation; superfetation Derived forms: verb impregnate3, verb impregnate4 - impregnation, saturation - the process of totally saturating something with a substance; "the impregnation of wood with preservative"; "the saturation of cotton with ether"