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fertilize or -lise Verb [-lizing, -lized] or -lising, -lised 1. to provide (an animal or plant) with sperm or pollen to bring about fertilization 2. to supply (soil) with nutrients fertilization
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| I will spare you the familiar examples of the sensitive mimosa, the several insectivorous flowers and those whose stamens bend down and shake their pollen upon the entering bee in order that he may fertilize their distant mates. A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee's existence. It was the summer sun flashing out after the heavy summer shower; and what fertilizes more rapidly than that beam, burning almost like fire in its ardour? |
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