Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
FERTILIZE
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
fertilize (third-person singular simple present fertilizes, present participle fertilizing, simple past and past participle fertilized)
To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
(figuratively) To make more creative or intellectually productive.
To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.
Source: Wiktionary
Fer"ti*lize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fertilized; p. pr. & vb. n. Fertilizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. fertiliser.]
1. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron.
2. To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower. A. R. Wallace.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
3 July 2025
SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
Coffee Trivia
