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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Menhaden :: Menhaden (n.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc..
Agamic :: Agamic (a.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs..
Dichogamy :: Dichogamy (n.) The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves..
Enrich :: Enrich (v. t.) To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation..
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.
Cultivate :: Cultivate (v. t.) To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil..
Fructify :: Fructify (v. t.) To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth..
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..
Arrenotokous :: Arrenotokous (a.) Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees..
Impregnant :: Impregnant (a.) Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
Intercross :: Intercross (v. t. & i.) To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or variety by another; to impregnate by a different species or variety.
Oospere :: Oospere (n.) An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oogonium..
Autogamous :: Autogamous (a.) Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.
Cytula :: Cytula (n.) The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed..
Kainit :: Kainit (n.) Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.
Sex :: Sex (n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes..
Prolificate :: Prolificate (v. t.) To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.
Fucoid :: Fucoid (a.) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character..
Wind-fertilized :: Wind-fertilized (a.) Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
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..
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