In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.

Regarding the proposal, the boss said to sit on it and I tend to agree: it is too soon to begin.

He spent 20 minutes one afternoon describing the club he'd formed with other teenagers in his Brooklyn neighborhood. They'd each pitched in a buck a month to rent the basement of a mallet factory, which they used as a clubhouse.

immediate family; immediate vicinity