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fertilizer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fertilizer has 1 sense
- fertilizer(n = noun.substance) fertiliser, plant food - any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile; Array is a kind of chemical, chemical substance
has particulars: organic, organic fertiliser, organic fertilizer
Derived forms verb fertilize1, verb fertilize2
CIDE DICTIONARY
fertilizer, n.
- One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid. A. R. Wallace. [1913 Webster]
- That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial substances which make plants grow better, as manure, guano, phosphate of lime, ammonium nitrate, etc. [1913 Webster]
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