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Such changes may make it more likely that the sperm will fertilize the egg and transform it into healthy offspring. 

From National Geographic

A delirious discussion ensues about whether or not the duck will fertilize it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among other things, there is the possibility that as transgenes in pollen drift, they will fertilize wild plants, and weeds will emerge that are hardier and even more difficult to control.

From Time Magazine Archive

When it falls it will fertilize a bank of violets.

From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Ingersoll, Robert Green

The grower must always be sure that his varieties will "fertilize"; that is, that he has sufficient pollen-bearing kinds to insure a crop.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)