cross-pollinate vs inseminate

cross-pollinate and inseminate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cross-pollinate	No	No	Yes	No
inseminate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, inseminate is a hypernym of cross-pollinate; that is, inseminate is a word with a broader meaning than cross-pollinate:

Other hypernyms of cross-pollinate include fecundate, fertilise, fertilize.

cross-pollinate (verb)	inseminate (verb)
fertilize by transferring pollen	introduce semen into (a female)
	place seeds in or on (the ground)