FERTILIZE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron.

2.
v.

To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower. A. R. Wallace.