Definition of "cross-fertilisation" [cross-fertilisation]

• Alternative spelling of cross-fertilization. (noun)

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• "Such wholesale cross-fertilisation of musical conventions owes a lot to new technology, according to Jeremy Pritchard, bass player and co-writer with Mercury-nominated alternative rock band Everything Everything."
• "The exhibition will examine the influence that one artist may exert upon their partner, and the cross-fertilisation of ideas and techniques."
• "I'd like to think of this non-theatrical archive of memories as a good thing; a cross-fertilisation of our performance vocabulary that introduces completely different yet complementary conventions to those of traditional theatre: different expectations as to what is achievable through the live encounter and how you should go about constructing one."