Fertilize
verb
To provide a plant or seed with materials like nutrients and minerals it needs to grow.
Farmers fertilize their crops to help them grow better.
Often appears as...
- fertilize the soil
- fertilize the crops
verb
To cause an egg in an animal or person to start to develop into a new being.
The egg is fertilized by the sperm to create a new life.
Often appears as...
- fertilize an egg
- fertilize a cell
verb
To provide a plant or seed with materials like nutrients and minerals it needs to grow.
Farmers fertilize their crops to help them grow better.
Often appears as...
- fertilize the soil
- fertilize the crops
verb
To cause an egg in an animal or person to start to develop into a new being.
The egg is fertilized by the sperm to create a new life.
Often appears as...
- fertilize an egg
- fertilize a cell
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Use
Commonly used in farming and gardening contexts to discuss improving plant growth.
Remember to fertilize your vegetable patch to enjoy a bountiful harvest.
Pro Tip 2/3Timing Matters
Plants are usually fertilized in the growing season for best results.
She had to fertilize the flowers early spring to see them bloom in summer.
Pro Tip 3/3Method Specific
Fertilizing can involve methods like spreading, spraying or injecting nutrients into the soil.
The farmer used a machine to fertilize the large field quickly.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Use
Commonly used in farming and gardening contexts to discuss improving plant growth.
Remember to fertilize your vegetable patch to enjoy a bountiful harvest.
Pro Tip 2/3Timing Matters
Plants are usually fertilized in the growing season for best results.
She had to fertilize the flowers early spring to see them bloom in summer.
Pro Tip 3/3Method Specific
Fertilizing can involve methods like spreading, spraying or injecting nutrients into the soil.
The farmer used a machine to fertilize the large field quickly.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Use
Commonly used in farming and gardening contexts to discuss improving plant growth.
Remember to fertilize your vegetable patch to enjoy a bountiful harvest.
Pro Tip 2/3Timing Matters
Plants are usually fertilized in the growing season for best results.
She had to fertilize the flowers early spring to see them bloom in summer.
Pro Tip 3/3Method Specific
Fertilizing can involve methods like spreading, spraying or injecting nutrients into the soil.
The farmer used a machine to fertilize the large field quickly.
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How menstruation works -...
Otherwise, the egg's escapade ends, and the window for pregnancy closes for that month. Meanwhile, the now empty follicle begins to release progesterone, another hormone that tells the womb's lining to plump up with blood and nutrients in preparation for a fertilized egg that may embed there and grow.
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How in vitro fertilizatio...
If the egg is not fertilized by sperm within 24 hours, the unfertilized egg will die, and the entire system will reset itself, preparing to create a new egg and uterine lining the following month. The egg is the largest cell in the body and is protected by a thick, extracellular shell of sugar
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How Do Honeybees Get...
sex of her children which plays a pivotal role in their future if the queen wants to lay a female egg she will fertilize the egg by releasing spermatozoa that is stored in the spermatheca which sits behind her ovaries the spermatheca is filled during her first week of life when she mates
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The taboo secret to...
as advanced potty training. I think you're ready for it. I think we as a culture are ready for advanced potty training. And there are three great reasons to enroll today. Number we can fertilize our food. Each one of us is pooping and peeing something
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The secret lives of baby...
This can happen daily, seasonally, or yearly depending on the species, generally following lunar or seasonal tidal patterns. Left to their fate, the fertilized eggs drift with the currents, and millions of baby larvae hatch into the world.
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How a single-celled...
Cyanobacteria are still around in almost every environment on oceans, fresh water, soil, antarctic rocks, sloth fur. They still pump oxygen into the atmosphere, and they also pull nitrogen out to fertilize the plants they helped create.
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Fire and Feast PIPE A...
fertilized by ash the savannah grows anew some grasses gaining up to three centimeters in just 24 hours once again the fire brings feast this surge of life from the ashes feeds the next generation
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Cell membranes are way...
Other proteins in cell membranes can help fuse two different bilayers. That can work to our benefit, like when a sperm fertilizes an egg, but also harm us, as it does when a virus enters a cell.
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How Are Eggs Made? PIPE...
chick and only when she's done that will the egg be fertilized remarkably it takes more than one sperm to start a new life the extra sperm probably releases substances that start the embryos
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Attracting outside...
three weeks after he called me he said no you have to pay additional two hundred thousand a month also he said you have to put eight million dollar fertilizing then I went to the minister
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How menstruation works -...
Otherwise, the egg's escapade ends, and the window for pregnancy closes for that month. Meanwhile, the now empty follicle begins to release progesterone, another hormone that tells the womb's lining to plump up with blood and nutrients in preparation for a fertilized egg that may embed there and grow.
Video examples
How in vitro fertilizatio...
If the egg is not fertilized by sperm within 24 hours, the unfertilized egg will die, and the entire system will reset itself, preparing to create a new egg and uterine lining the following month. The egg is the largest cell in the body and is protected by a thick, extracellular shell of sugar
Video examples
How Do Honeybees Get...
sex of her children which plays a pivotal role in their future if the queen wants to lay a female egg she will fertilize the egg by releasing spermatozoa that is stored in the spermatheca which sits behind her ovaries the spermatheca is filled during her first week of life when she mates
Video examples
The taboo secret to...
as advanced potty training. I think you're ready for it. I think we as a culture are ready for advanced potty training. And there are three great reasons to enroll today. Number we can fertilize our food. Each one of us is pooping and peeing something
Video examples
The secret lives of baby...
This can happen daily, seasonally, or yearly depending on the species, generally following lunar or seasonal tidal patterns. Left to their fate, the fertilized eggs drift with the currents, and millions of baby larvae hatch into the world.
Video examples
How a single-celled...
Cyanobacteria are still around in almost every environment on oceans, fresh water, soil, antarctic rocks, sloth fur. They still pump oxygen into the atmosphere, and they also pull nitrogen out to fertilize the plants they helped create.
Video examples
Fire and Feast PIPE A...
fertilized by ash the savannah grows anew some grasses gaining up to three centimeters in just 24 hours once again the fire brings feast this surge of life from the ashes feeds the next generation
Video examples
Cell membranes are way...
Other proteins in cell membranes can help fuse two different bilayers. That can work to our benefit, like when a sperm fertilizes an egg, but also harm us, as it does when a virus enters a cell.
Video examples
How Are Eggs Made? PIPE...
chick and only when she's done that will the egg be fertilized remarkably it takes more than one sperm to start a new life the extra sperm probably releases substances that start the embryos
Video examples
Attracting outside...
three weeks after he called me he said no you have to pay additional two hundred thousand a month also he said you have to put eight million dollar fertilizing then I went to the minister
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Rigoberta Menchu
Guatemalan Activist
The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew the natural cycle of life. The Mayan people will once again flourish. I believe in this very strongly. The holy men say we are entering a period of clarity. We are rediscovering our Mayan values.
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Subcomandante Marcos
Mexican Activist
In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.
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Charlotte Bronte
British Novelist
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
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Clyde Edgerton
American Author
I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.
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Andre Malraux
French Author
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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Evelyn Waugh
English Author
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Rebecca West
Irish Author
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
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David Joseph Schwartz
American Businessman
Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
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Emile Zola
French Novelist
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
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Max Nordau
Hungarian Critic
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
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Rigoberta Menchu
Guatemalan Activist
The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew the natural cycle of life. The Mayan people will once again flourish. I believe in this very strongly. The holy men say we are entering a period of clarity. We are rediscovering our Mayan values.
Quote examples
Subcomandante Marcos
Mexican Activist
In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.
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Charlotte Bronte
British Novelist
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Quote examples
Clyde Edgerton
American Author
I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.
Quote examples
Andre Malraux
French Author
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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Evelyn Waugh
English Author
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Quote examples
Rebecca West
Irish Author
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Quote examples
David Joseph Schwartz
American Businessman
Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
Quote examples
Emile Zola
French Novelist
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Quote examples
Max Nordau
Hungarian Critic
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
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