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fertilize
transitive verb fertilized, fertilizing
- to make fertile; make fruitful or productive; enrich: nitrates fertilize soil
- to spread fertilizer on
- Biol. to make (the female reproductive cell or female individual) fruitful by pollinating, or impregnating, with the male gamete
Related Forms:
- fertilizable adjective
- fertilization noun
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