Sentence examples for fertilize from inspiring English sources
The word "fertilize" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing the process of adding nutrients to the soil in order to help plants grow. For example: "The farmer fertilized his fields to ensure a good harvest this season."
verb
To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
The sperm are then used to fertilize the woman via in vitro fertilization (IVF) or artificial insemination.
This upper layer contains the nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers that have run off croplands, and they fertilize the ocean's phytoplankton, causing excessive population growth.
And sperm, if deposited in her vagina, are less likely to be able to fertilize.
Aside from making a delicious beverage, tea leaves can be used as an anti-inflammatory for minor bug bites and burns (and for puffy eyes), to fertilize plants, and as a freshener and deodorizer.
He is reputed to have been the first to fertilize date palms artificially.
After release, the sperm may immediately move up the oviducts and fertilize eggs just released from the ovary, or they may be stored by the female and released later to achieve fertilization.
How they work is unclear, though researchers suspect that they cause a mild inflammation of the endometrium, thus inhibiting ovulation, preventing fertilization, or preventing implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterine lining.
As many as half of the eggs fertilized die within 10 days of fertilization without the woman even knowing she has conceived.
Because of their ability to disperse by spores and their capacity to produce both sex organs on the same gametophyte and thus to self-fertilize, it would seem logical to assume that ferns possess higher powers of long-distance dispersal and establishment than do seed plants.
Although some species are known to self-fertilize if no partners are present, most shallow-water species cross-fertilize, by means of internal fertilization.
At least two varieties that cross-fertilize successfully must be planted in association with each other.
