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Definition of fertilize in English: fertilize(British fertilise) verb ˈfəːtɪlʌɪzˈfərdlˌaɪz [with object]1Cause (an egg, female animal, or plant) to develop a new individual by introducing male reproductive material. 使（卵子、雌性动物或植物）受精 Example sentencesExamples - If they are able to find sperm in a frozen mammoth carcass, they will try to take the nucleus from mammoth sperm and use it to fertilize an elephant egg in vitro.
- The mother could also have both male and female reproductive characteristics giving her the ability to fertilize her own eggs.
- In desperation, Wood thought of trying to fertilise human eggs inside animals, where he hoped the biological environment would be better for the eggs.
- When fertility laboratories fertilize eggs, grow embryos to the same developmental stage as the embryo clones and implant them in a human uterus, 40 to 60 percent end up as babies.
- The male then fertilizes the eggs and the female keeps them in her mouth for a few days until they hatch, thus earning the epithet mouth-brooder.
- What we found was that in general, the sperm was much less able to fertilise the eggs from female fish than the sperm from normal male fish would be, and we had a kind of sliding scale of effects.
- Males compete to fertilize eggs, and a week or two after spawning adults of both sexes die.
- When a female is inseminated with spermatozoa from an allospecific male, his spermatozoa successfully fertilize the eggs.
- Shinohara and his colleagues used a recently developed technique called in vitro microinsemination to fertilize rat eggs with mouse-grown rat sperm.
- The female needs a male to fertilize her egg, even though it is she who carries offspring through pregnancy and childbirth.
- Sperm from the same male could be used to fertilize eggs from several females and vice versa.
- Significantly fewer eggs were fertilised when females mated with males given the drug.
- The male will follow behind the female and fertilize the eggs as they are laid.
- The eggs are fertilised inside the female and develop under the protection of the female.
- Biologists knew from studies on a wide range of animals that males compete with other males to fertilize eggs and that females choose potential mates based on the males' appearance and, perhaps, even on their sperm.
- After this process is complete a male bull trout (usually only one) will fertilize eggs deposited by the female.
- They say that most of your sperm are designed not to find and fertilize the female egg but to fight off other males' sperm.
- Zebrafish can also be made to develop as haploids by fertilizing the egg with sperm heavily irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- This procedure is repeated until all the eggs are laid, with the male looping himself round the female each time to fertilize the eggs as she lays them.
- Reef fishes are egg-layers, and the eggs are externally fertilized by the male parent.
Synonyms impregnate, inseminate rare fecundate pollinate, cross-pollinate, cross-fertilize, make fruitful rare fecundate, fructify 2Make (soil or land) more fertile or productive by adding suitable substances to it. 使（土壤，土地）肥沃；给…施肥 Example sentencesExamples - The compost can be used as mulch around plants, as a top dressing over your lawn which can fertilise the soil, or as a soil improver in vegetable or flower beds.
- The most fertile land is in the Pacific coast region, where volcanic ash has fertilized the soil.
- The soil was well fertilized and was watered regularly.
- When the only other dead member of our party died, we buried him in the soil to fertilize the land.
- In the meantime, Waitrose is selling a selenium enriched bread grown by a farmer in East Anglia who fertilises his soil with selenium.
- They will build a dam for the cattle to drink from, and they will fertilize the soil with manure.
- Soils may harbor 50 to 500 earthworms per square meter; they keep soils aerated, and their castings fertilize the soil.
- Defecating its meal, the grizzly fertilizes the nitrogen-poor soil of the Douglas-fir forest.
- Despite the dangers, people often settle near volcanoes because the soil is periodically fertilized with mineral rich ash and dust.
- The dusty surface of our home wouldn't support any plantlife initially, but biochemistry has helped the gardener grow topsoil over the years, and fertilised the land.
- What we should see at this time of year are fields of maize about 1ft high and tractors fertilising the land.
- They had to work out how they'd control weeds and insects, how they'd water the crop in a drought, and to start with, how they'd fertilise the soil.
- While the floods are drowning crops and livestock, and damaging property, they are also fertilising the soil in the form of silt.
- They may also indicate that you are fertilizing the soil too much.
- The compost will fertilize the soil as well as providing a layer of mulch to keep the soil moist.
- At the end of the nineteenth century, burning forest biomass to clear land and fertilize the soil was used only occasionally on the Continent.
- How can we fertilize neglected land for best productivity while preparing it for organic certification down the road?
- Many farmers use manure to fertilize farm ground and pastures because it is relatively cheap and replenishes nutrients and organic matter.
- Instead of fertilising small plots of land with natural fertilisers, thousands of hectares are fertilised with substances that do not occur naturally.
- She prepared the nursery herself and used material like gypsum and neem cake (made with neem seeds) to fertilize the land.
Synonyms add fertilizer to, enrich with fertilizer, feed, mulch, compost, manure, dung, dress, top-dress make more fertile rare fecundate, fructify
Derivativesadjective Because female Collared Flycatchers only lay one clutch per season, the proportion of fertilizable females declines as the proportion of incubating females increase. Example sentencesExamples - These sexual differences are reflected in the operational sex ratio; the ratio of fertilizable females to sexually active males at the site and time when mating occurs.
- Furthermore, males would benefit, because there would be more fertilizable females available, which would increase EPC opportunities.
- This, and the consequent high ratio of sexually active males to fertilizable females, causes the males to be rather indiscriminate and the females to exert careful mate choice.
- One factor long hypothesized to influence the skew in male mating success in a population is the temporal distribution of fertilizable females.
Definition of fertilize in US English: fertilize(British fertilise) verbˈfərdlˌaɪzˈfərdlˌīz [with object]1Cause (an egg, female animal, or plant) to develop a new individual by introducing male reproductive material. 使（卵子、雌性动物或植物）受精 Example sentencesExamples - The male then fertilizes the eggs and the female keeps them in her mouth for a few days until they hatch, thus earning the epithet mouth-brooder.
- If they are able to find sperm in a frozen mammoth carcass, they will try to take the nucleus from mammoth sperm and use it to fertilize an elephant egg in vitro.
- After this process is complete a male bull trout (usually only one) will fertilize eggs deposited by the female.
- The eggs are fertilised inside the female and develop under the protection of the female.
- Males compete to fertilize eggs, and a week or two after spawning adults of both sexes die.
- When a female is inseminated with spermatozoa from an allospecific male, his spermatozoa successfully fertilize the eggs.
- This procedure is repeated until all the eggs are laid, with the male looping himself round the female each time to fertilize the eggs as she lays them.
- In desperation, Wood thought of trying to fertilise human eggs inside animals, where he hoped the biological environment would be better for the eggs.
- Shinohara and his colleagues used a recently developed technique called in vitro microinsemination to fertilize rat eggs with mouse-grown rat sperm.
- When fertility laboratories fertilize eggs, grow embryos to the same developmental stage as the embryo clones and implant them in a human uterus, 40 to 60 percent end up as babies.
- The female needs a male to fertilize her egg, even though it is she who carries offspring through pregnancy and childbirth.
- Significantly fewer eggs were fertilised when females mated with males given the drug.
- Reef fishes are egg-layers, and the eggs are externally fertilized by the male parent.
- Sperm from the same male could be used to fertilize eggs from several females and vice versa.
- Biologists knew from studies on a wide range of animals that males compete with other males to fertilize eggs and that females choose potential mates based on the males' appearance and, perhaps, even on their sperm.
- The mother could also have both male and female reproductive characteristics giving her the ability to fertilize her own eggs.
- Zebrafish can also be made to develop as haploids by fertilizing the egg with sperm heavily irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- What we found was that in general, the sperm was much less able to fertilise the eggs from female fish than the sperm from normal male fish would be, and we had a kind of sliding scale of effects.
- They say that most of your sperm are designed not to find and fertilize the female egg but to fight off other males' sperm.
- The male will follow behind the female and fertilize the eggs as they are laid.
Synonyms impregnate, inseminate pollinate, cross-pollinate, cross-fertilize, make fruitful - 1.1 Make (soil or land) more fertile or productive by adding suitable substances to it.
使（土壤，土地）肥沃；给…施肥 Example sentencesExamples - Soils may harbor 50 to 500 earthworms per square meter; they keep soils aerated, and their castings fertilize the soil.
- They may also indicate that you are fertilizing the soil too much.
- They will build a dam for the cattle to drink from, and they will fertilize the soil with manure.
- The soil was well fertilized and was watered regularly.
- At the end of the nineteenth century, burning forest biomass to clear land and fertilize the soil was used only occasionally on the Continent.
- She prepared the nursery herself and used material like gypsum and neem cake (made with neem seeds) to fertilize the land.
- While the floods are drowning crops and livestock, and damaging property, they are also fertilising the soil in the form of silt.
- When the only other dead member of our party died, we buried him in the soil to fertilize the land.
- The dusty surface of our home wouldn't support any plantlife initially, but biochemistry has helped the gardener grow topsoil over the years, and fertilised the land.
- The most fertile land is in the Pacific coast region, where volcanic ash has fertilized the soil.
- The compost can be used as mulch around plants, as a top dressing over your lawn which can fertilise the soil, or as a soil improver in vegetable or flower beds.
- How can we fertilize neglected land for best productivity while preparing it for organic certification down the road?
- What we should see at this time of year are fields of maize about 1ft high and tractors fertilising the land.
- They had to work out how they'd control weeds and insects, how they'd water the crop in a drought, and to start with, how they'd fertilise the soil.
- Defecating its meal, the grizzly fertilizes the nitrogen-poor soil of the Douglas-fir forest.
- The compost will fertilize the soil as well as providing a layer of mulch to keep the soil moist.
- Instead of fertilising small plots of land with natural fertilisers, thousands of hectares are fertilised with substances that do not occur naturally.
- Despite the dangers, people often settle near volcanoes because the soil is periodically fertilized with mineral rich ash and dust.
- In the meantime, Waitrose is selling a selenium enriched bread grown by a farmer in East Anglia who fertilises his soil with selenium.
- Many farmers use manure to fertilize farm ground and pastures because it is relatively cheap and replenishes nutrients and organic matter.
Synonyms add fertilizer to, enrich with fertilizer, feed, mulch, compost, manure, dung, dress, top-dress
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