fertilise
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a variation of
fertilize.
fertilize
Example Sentences
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It used to be collected by the bucketload to fertilise farm land, but that's no longer possible because of the pollution.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
Some of the guano is washed off the islands by rain and into the surrounding seas where the nutrients fertilise corals, and other marine species.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2023
Sexual reproduction in species such as humans needs sperm to fertilise eggs and create an embryo.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2023
To fertilise the crops, India depends on imports for its entire annual consumption of 4 million to 5 million tonnes of potash and ships in a third of this from Belarus and Russia.
From Reuters ● Mar. 15, 2022
Gradually they also started to weed the fields, to guard them against parasites, and to water and fertilise them.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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