0 present 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:
The timber was necessarily burned where it stood or fell, since this then provided ash for fertilizing the subsequent crop.
It may be that alternative fertilizing services come more cheaply (and may or may not be jointly produced with other products).
Response to selection in partially self fertilizing populations.
Evidence for a role of post-ovulatory cumulus components in supporting fertilizing ability of hamster spermatozoa.
In our experiments, therefore, a further criterion for evaluation of fertilizing ability of spermatozoa was based on the syngamy rate.
Preservation of hamster oocytes to assay the fertilizing capacity of human spermatozoa.
Retention of biologic characteristics of zona pellucida in highly concentrated salt solutions: the use of salt-stored eggs for assessing the fertilizing capacity of spermatozoa.
Efforts were made to avoid fertilizing intercropped soybean, but it is accepted that some lateral diffusion was inevitable.
