Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a large number of natural and synthetic materials, including manure and nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium compounds, spread on or worked into soil to increase its capacity to support plant growth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which fertilizes; specifically, a manure, whether organic or inorganic: as, guano is a powerful fertilizer. Also spelled
fertiliser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid.
- noun That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial substances which make plants grow better, as manure, guano, phosphate of lime, ammonium nitrate, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
natural substance that is used to make theground more suitable forgrowing plants . - noun A
chemical compound created to have the same effect.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile
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Examples
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Most people, when they use the term fertilizer, think primarily of artificial fertilizer.
Chapter 4 1996
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"Right now nitrogen fertilizer is like 115 million tons per year around the world," added Rao.
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Also there were loads of commercial fertilizer from the railroad station, bought under Mrs. Mortimer's instructions.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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Instead of tilling the dirt and pumping in fertilizer, you build a big box, put a liner on the bottom, and fill it with a mixture of peat moss, vermiculite and compost.
Boing Boing 2009
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As Beatrix has reminded you, bad information about your organic fertilizer is just as dangerous as cutworms.
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In addition, Radioactive contaminants have been found in some brands of Yerba Mate, suggesting that they were grown with fertilizer from the area around the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident.
The Pink Patch - Irresponsible Advertising on My Space aka TBTAM 2008
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Via the drip irrigation system, also fertilizer is distributed inside the four-layer textile of the wall.
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Via the drip irrigation system, also fertilizer is distributed inside the four-layer textile of the wall.
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It quickly becomes a breeding pool for all kinds of bacteria; it also might contain fertilizer, pesticides or other chemicals from the tree.
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Runoff of nitrogen fertilizer is a major problem — causing eutrophication of our lakes and dead zones in our oceans.
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