Definitions
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- verb UK Alternative spelling of
fertilize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- verb introduce semen into (a female)
- verb make fertile or productive
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Examples
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An expedition including British scientists that hoped to "fertilise" the ocean to combat global warming was last night ordered to stop because of concerns that the experiment could breach international law.
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Breland, who plans to canvass door-to-door "down to the wire" said the prohibitions on frozen embryos – and the restriction on the number of eggs a physician is allowed to fertilise – is in effect a ban on IVF.
Mississippi voters evenly split over controversial abortion ballot 2011
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It took almost two decades of basic scientific study of the life cycle of human eggs before Edwards and his colleagues, in 1969, were able to successfully fertilise them outside the human body.
British IVF pioneer Robert Edwards wins Nobel prize for medicine Alok Jha 2010
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Living things provide humankind's food, fabric, fibre and pharmaceuticals; they fertilise and pollinate crops, generate oxygen and recycle water.
Biodiversity: Boundless, priceless – and threatened | Editorial 2011
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The ‘transplant’ technique, which is described in the journal Nature, involves using IVF techniques to fertilise an egg from a healthy donor.
New Era of Designer Babies with Three Parents and No Hereditary Diseases | Impact Lab 2010
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London, Nov 13 (ANI): Peeing on the compost heap can help fertilise gardens and save on flushing the lavatory, a UK charity has urged.
An Ominous Story 2009
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The damage may reduce fertility by lowering sperm counts or reducing the sperm's ability to fertilise a woman's eggs.
Antioxidants may help men with fertility problems, study reveals 2011
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Li believes that males evolved to lose their palps because the strategy allowed them to fertilise females even if the organ was broken off in seconds or the female ate the male alive.
Male spiders sacrifice their genitals to fertilise big hungry females 2012
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Botanists have discovered for the first time that the plants are carnivorous predators who kill insects in order to ‘self-fertilise’ themselves.
Carnivorous tomatoes? Insect-eating petunias? Apparently so… « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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A fourth parent – the man whose sperm was used to fertilise the donor egg – was involved, but none of his DNA was passed on.
New Era of Designer Babies with Three Parents and No Hereditary Diseases | Impact Lab 2010
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