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v. To cause the fertilization of (an ovum, for example).

v. To make (soil, for example) fertile: Compost fertilizes the soil.

v. To spread fertilizer on: used a mechanical spreader to fertilize the lawn.

verb-intransitive. To spread fertilizer.

v. To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.

v. To make more creative or intellectually productive.

v. To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.

v. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive.

v. To fecundate.

To make fertile; enrich, as soil; make fruitful or productive, in general; fecundate: as, to fertilize land, the imagination, etc.

In biology, to render capable of development by the introduction of the male germ-element; impregnate.

Also spelled fertilise.

v. introduce semen into (a female)

v. make fertile or productive

v. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

"Starting to prove that insects fertilize the flowers, his carefully observed facts only served to demonstrate in many cases the reverse -- that _insects could not fertilize_ flowers in the manner he had declared."

fertilized    fertilizes    fertilizing   

change    modify    alter   

fecundate   

soft-boiled    carris    hard-cooked    poached    new-laid    hard-set    schistosome    unhatched    carraway    soft-shelled