Definition of fertilize

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Fertilize (v. t.) To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower..

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Sex :: Sex (n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes..
Fertilize :: Fertilize (v. t.) To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower..
Oospere :: Oospere (n.) An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oogonium..
Fertilizer :: Fertilizer (n.) One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid..
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..
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..
Kainit :: Kainit (n.) Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.
Fructify :: Fructify (v. t.) To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth..
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..
Fertilitate :: Fertilitate (v. t.) To fertilize; to fecundate.
Entomophilous :: Entomophilous (a.) Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.
Impregnant :: Impregnant (a.) Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
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..
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..
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..
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..
Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
Fertilizer :: Fertilizer (n.) That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc..
Enrich :: Enrich (v. t.) To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation..
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..
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