superfecundation

noun

fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males)

Roots

supersuper- · Latin · over, additional fecundusfecund- · Latin · fruitful, fertile atio-ation · Latin · act or process of

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