Definitions
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- noun Excessive
fertilization ; the overuse offertilizer .
Etymologies
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over- + fertilization
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Examples
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Avoid overfertilization which may cause plants to grow too tall.
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The National Audubon Society put Augusta National on a list of "bad" courses in a magazine article 10 years ago, about the same time that a book predicted the club's loblolly pines would soon die, victims not just of age but also of overfertilization.
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Problem the Russians left for us was a ton of land damaged by overfertilization and farming techniques.
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