intransitive verb. To cause the fertilization of (an ovum, for example).

intransitive verb. To make (soil, for example) fertile.

intransitive verb. To spread fertilizer on.

intransitive verb. To spread fertilizer.

To make fertile; enrich, as soil; make fruitful or productive, in general; fecundate: as, to fertilize land, the imagination, etc.

In biology, to render capable of development by the introduction of the male germ-element; impregnate.

Also spelled fertilise.

transitive verb. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive.

transitive verb. To fecundate.

verb. To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.

verb. To make more creative or intellectually productive.

verb. To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.

verb. introduce semen into (a female)

verb. make fertile or productive

verb. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

"Starting to prove that insects fertilize the flowers, his carefully observed facts only served to demonstrate in many cases the reverse -- that _insects could not fertilize_ flowers in the manner he had declared."

alter  change  modify  

carraway  carris  chia  disease-free  germinating  

backset  compost  cross-fertilize  cross-pollen  cross-pollinate  

fertilized  fertilizes  fertilizing