{f} impregnate, inseminate; enrich the soil by the addition of organic or chemical substances (also fertilise)
provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination
provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
To fertilize land means to improve its quality in order to make plants grow well on it, by spreading solid animal waste or a chemical mixture on it. The faeces contain nitrogen and it is that which fertilises the desert soil. chemically fertilized fields. = enrich
fer·ti·lize fertilizes fertilizing fertilized in BRIT, also use fertilise. When an egg from the ovary of a woman or female animal is fertilized, a sperm from the male joins with the egg, causing a baby or young animal to begin forming. A female plant is fertilized when its reproductive parts come into contact with pollen from the male plant. Certain varieties cannot be fertilised with their own pollen. the normal sperm levels needed to fertilise the female egg Pregnancy begins when the fertilized egg is implanted in the wall of the uterus. + fertilization fer·ti·li·za·tion The average length of time from fertilization until birth is about 266 days
To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows