0 past simple and past participle of fertilize
1 to spread a natural or chemical substance on land or plants, in order to make the plants grow well
2 to cause an egg or seed to start to develop into a new young animal or plant by joining it with a male cell:
Fertilized eggs are transferred into a special culture medium for further growth.
But this did not change the relative profitability of the treatments: sole maize fertilized and unfertilized remained more profitable than the respective legume intercrops.
The fertilized egg cell, as a consequence, holds a mixture of past adaptations and future possibilities.
Extensively managed grasslands could prove crucial in catchment management to effectively lock up nutrients trapped from adjacent areas of intensively fertilized crops and pastures.
Compost-treated soils exhibited higher organic carbon content than inorganically fertilized soils, throughout the experimental period.
From fig. 2, 104 eggs were identified as fertilized (one cell stage) and 14 as unfertilized.
In both the above species, fertilized females boring through the body wall of the larval host initiate infection.
Let po be the probability per unit time of an unfertilized ovum being fertilized by spermatozoa from a given insemination.
