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fertilize
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| fertilized egg
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| fertilizer
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fertilize
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb fertilize has 3 senses
- fertilize(v = verb.change) feed, fertilise - provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" is one way to enrich
- fertilize(v = verb.change) fecundate, fertilise - make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination" is one way to alter, change, modify
- fertilize(v = verb.body) fecundate, fertilise, inseminate - introduce semen into (a female); Array is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived forms noun fertilization2, noun fertilizer1
Sample sentence:
They fertilize the trees
Derived form noun fertilizer1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun fertilization1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
fertilize, v. t. [Cf. F. fertiliser.].
- To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. [1913 Webster]"And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain." [1913 Webster]
- To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower. A. R. Wallace. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fertilize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 make (soil etc.) fertile or productive.
2 cause (an egg, female animal, or plant) to develop a new individual by introducing male reproductive material.
1 make (soil etc.) fertile or productive.
2 cause (an egg, female animal, or plant) to develop a new individual by introducing male reproductive material.
Derivative
fertilizable adj. fertilizer n.
THESAURUS
fertilize
backset, compost, cross-fertilize, cross-pollen, cross-pollinate, cross-pollinize, cultivate, culture, cut, delve, dig, dress, enrich, fallow, fatten, fecundate, fecundify, feed, force, fructify, get with child, get with young, harrow, hoe, impregnate, inseminate, list, manure, mulch, nourish, plow, pollen, pollinate, pollinize, prolificate, prune, rake, spade, spermatize, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, weed, weed out, workROGET THESAURUS
fertilize
Productiveness
VB make productive, fructify, procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate, fecundate, fecundify, teem, multiply, produce, conceive.
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