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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.

One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid. A. R. Wallace.

To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.

Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.

Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind- Fertilized. Lubbock.

The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary.

Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees.

Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.

A by-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate.

To fertilize or enrich, as land.

the works and bones of man. Am. Cyc. -- Bone dust, ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer. -- Bone earth (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium. -- Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone. -- Bone…

To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.

The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed. Hæckel.

which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.

To make rich with manure; to fertilize; -- said of the soil; as, to enrich land by irrigation.

Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.

To fertilize; to fecundate. Sir T. Browne.

To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

order of alga: (Fucoideæ) which are blackish in color, and produce oöspores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character.