[
US
/ˈfɝtəˌɫaɪz/
]
VERB
-
provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants - introduce semen into (a female)
-
make fertile or productive
The course fertilized her imagination
How To Use fertilize In A Sentence
- The application of fertilizer increased the size of the plants.
- After all, at conception, the fertilized egg has all the information necessary to code for your physical potential.
- Urea nitrogenized fertilizer, 80.3 in 1969; 141 in 1974. CUBAN WORKERS CONGRESS
- Female cockroaches carry their fertilized eggs around in these pod-like sacks called ootheca. Boing Boing
- Don't spurn organic fertilizers that are low in nutrients, because they're rich in organic matter that turns to valuable humus in the soil.
- Many fertilizers contain nitrogen compounds.
- But Walter Mulbry, the USDA microbiologist, also showed that corn and cucumber seedlings could thrive on an organic fertilizer made from the dried-out algae.
- Some species consist only of females that produce their daughters from unfertilized eggs, a type of reproduction called parthenogenesis.
- Don't amend the soil with compost or other fertilizers unless your soil is so poor it won't even grow weeds.
- The bulk of flu vaccine production today is done using fertilized chicken eggs and takes months.