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iefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.

One of a class of plants, so called by Lindley, because the ovules are fertilized by direct contact of the pollen. Same as Gymnosperm.

Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile. [R.]

To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.

To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or variety by another; to impregnate by a different species or variety.

Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.

s young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.

t. -- Malt dust, fine particles of malt, or of the grain used in making malt; -used as a fertilizer. " Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain." Sir H. Davy. -- Malt floor, a floor for drying malt. -- Malt house, or Malthouse, a house in which malt is made. -- Malt kiln, a heated c…

Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oögonium.

A fertilized oösphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

ound, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer. Plaster cast, a copy of an object obtained by pouring plaster of Paris mixed with water into a mold. -- Plaster of Paris. Etym: [So called because originally brought from a suburb of Paris.] (Chem.) Anhydrous calcium…

To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate. Sir T. Browne.

as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.

An acid phosphate. Superphosphate of lime (Com. Chem.), a fertilizer obtained by trating bone dust, bone black, or phosphorite with sulphuric acid, whereby the insoluble neutral calcium phosphate, Ca3(PO4)2, is changed to the primary or acid calcium phosphate Ca(H2PO4)2, which is soluble and therefore available for the…

esp., the dried nitrogenous residue from tanks in which fat has been rendered, used as a fertilizer.