Definitions for Fertilize
ˈfɜr tlˌaɪzfer·til·ize

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fertilize, fertilise, feedverb

   provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

   "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"

2. fertilize, fecundate, fertiliseverb

   make fertile or productive

   "The course fertilized her imagination"

3. inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertiliseverb

   introduce semen into (a female)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fertilizeverb

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

2. fertilizeverb

   To make more creative or intellectually productive.

   to fertilize one's imagination

3. fertilizeverb

   To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Fertilizeverb

   To make fruitful; to make plenteous; to make productive; to fecundate.

   Etymology: fertiliser, French.

   Rain-water carries along with it a sort of terrestrial matter that fertilizes the land, as being proper for the formation of vegetables. John Woodward, Natural History.

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1. fertilize

   Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to give rise to a new individual organism or offspring and initiate its development. While processes such as insemination or pollination which happen before the fusion of gametes are also sometimes informally referred to as fertilisation, these are technically separate processes. The cycle of fertilisation and development of new individuals is called sexual reproduction. During double fertilisation in angiosperms the haploid male gamete combines with two haploid polar nuclei to form a triploid primary endosperm nucleus by the process of vegetative fertilisation.

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1. fertilize

   To fertilize generally refers to the process of adding nutrients to soil, plants, or the act of conception through the fusion of male and female gametes in animals and plants, resulting in the development of a new, genetically distinct organism.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fertilizeverb

   to make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows

2. Fertilizeverb

   to fecundate; as, to fertilize flower

3. Etymology: [Cf. F. fertiliser.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fertilize in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fertilize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Fertilize in a Sentence

1. Rebecca West:

   Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

2. Phil Verleger:

   A lot of truckers just won't be able to operate, if you're a farmer, you may have to leave some acres fallow, or won't fertilize as much. The macroeconomists don't get this. It's going to come back and haunt us all.

3. Dejan Stojanovic:

   We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.

4. Harry Emerson Fosdick:

   The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

5. Gib Brogan:

   As they eat, they will process that food and essentially fertilize the oceans … which is proven to be important to the health of the oceans, the oceans produce a tremendous amount of oxygen that we breathe. They moderate climate, they absorb a tremendous amount of heat that’s being produced by humans, and they provide food for billions of people.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Fertilize
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fertilize
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Fertilize
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilize
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Fertilize