Definition of fertilize

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Fertilize (v. t.) To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows..

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Kainit :: Kainit (n.) Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.
Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
Agamic :: Agamic (a.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs..
Impregnant :: Impregnant (a.) Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
Impregnate :: Impregnate (v. t.) To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.
Arrenotokous :: Arrenotokous (a.) Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees..
Gymnogen :: Gymnogen (n.) One of a class of plants, so called by Lindley, because the ovules are fertilized by direct contact of the pollen. Same as Gymnosperm..
Anemorphilous :: Anemorphilous (a.) Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.
Fertilize :: Fertilize (v. t.) To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows..
Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts..
Fertilize :: Fertilize (v. t.) To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower..
Guano :: Guano (n.) A substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer..
Plaster :: Plaster (n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer..
Entomophilous :: Entomophilous (a.) Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.
Self-fertilized :: Self-fertilized (a.) Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
Fertilizer :: Fertilizer (n.) One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid..
Male :: Male (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs..
Cytula :: Cytula (n.) The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed..
Oospere :: Oospere (n.) An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oogonium..
Sex :: Sex (n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes..
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