FERTILISE

inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise

(verb) introduce semen into (a female)

fertilize, fertilise, feed

(verb) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; “We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants”

fertilize, fecundate, fertilise

(verb) make fertile or productive; “The course fertilized her imagination”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

fertilise (third-person singular simple present fertilises, present participle fertilising, simple past and past participle fertilised)

Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fertilize.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

3 April 2025

WHOLE

(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”


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Coffee Trivia

The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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