Definition of "self-fertilisation" []

• Fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from the same individual (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Some of the kinds have their floral organs so arranged as to be capable of self-fertilisation; still, it is always as well to give them some assistance."
• "The most curious point you have brought out seems to me the slight superiority of self-fertilisation over fertilisation with another flower of the same plant, and the most important result, that difference of constitution is the essence of the benefit of cross-fertilisation."
• "If an occasional cross be indispensable, notwithstanding that the plant’s own anthers and pistil stand so near each other as almost to insure self-fertilisation, the fullest freedom for the entrance of pollen from another individual will explain the above state of exposure of the organs."