| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To manure, dung, compost or muck.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb fertilize.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fertilize) | 1. Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants".[Wordnet]. 2. Make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination".[Wordnet]. 3. Introduce semen into (a female).[Wordnet]. 4. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.[Websters]. 5. To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: fertilizing, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizer, fertilizers, fertilizingly and fertilizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being smouldering.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FERTILIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1809. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FERTILIZING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Enriching; making fruitful or productive. The Connecticut overflows the adjacent meadows, fertilizing them by depositing fine particles of earth or vegetable substances.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Food & Agriculture | The addition of elements or other materials to the soil to increase or maintain plant yields. Fertilizers may be organic or inorganic. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Forestry | The addition of nutrients to the soil in organic or inorganic form (Source: Forestry Statistics and Systems Branch. 1984. Reporting and summarizing forestry change data - Manitoba pilot study. Canadian Forestry Service, Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Chalk River, Ont. Inf. Rep. PI-X-36.). (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of to fertilize. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: FERTILIZING
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Iron fertilizing | Iron fertilizing is the practice of adding iron salts to the ocean. (references) | ||
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