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..
Batten :: Batten (v. t.) To fertilize or enrich, as land..
Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
Entomophilous :: Entomophilous (a.) Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.
Kainit :: Kainit (n.) Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.
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..
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..
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.
Enrich :: Enrich (v. t.) To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation..
Prolificate :: Prolificate (v. t.) To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.
Fertilizer :: Fertilizer (n.) That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc..
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.
Oospere :: Oospere (n.) An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oogonium..
Impregnate :: Impregnate (v. t.) To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.
Apogamy :: Apogamy (n.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.
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..
Agamic :: Agamic (a.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs..
Fertilized :: Fertilized (imp. & p. p.) of Fertiliz.
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..
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