fertilising in English

verb
1
cause (an egg, female animal, or plant) to develop a new individual by introducing male reproductive material.
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.
synonyms:pollinatecross-pollinatecross-fertilizefecundate
verb

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1. Mixtures of ammonium nitrate with calcium carbonate or other inorganic non-fertilising substances

2. Immediately after fertilising operations have ceased, banking-up is performed by ploughing an angled blade between each row of vines.

3. Ajet was also the season when the Nile flooded the valley, fertilising the land ready for new growth.

4. The net result, say some officials, is that foreign money has frequently ended up fertilising or irrigating opium fields.

5. Mixtures of ammonium nitrate with calcium carbonate or other inorganic non-fertilising substances, with a nitrogen content exceeding 28 % by weight

6. A variety of Biotopes providing habitats for useful insects and special bees - which both contribute to the fertilising of coco palms - can develop on diversified plantations

7. Module A1 shall be used for a straight or compound solid inorganic macronutrient ammonium nitrate fertiliser of high nitrogen content, as specified in PFC 1(C)(I)(a)(i-ii)(A), and for a fertilising product blend as specified in PFC 7 containing 28 % or more by mass of nitrogen (N) from an EU fertilising product belonging to PFC 1(C)(I)(a)(i-ii)(A).

8. Where such products aim solely at improving the plants' nutrient use efficiency, tolerance to abiotic stress, or crop quality traits, degradation of soil organic compounds, or increasing the availability of nutrients in the rhizosphere , they are by nature more similar to fertilising products than to most categories of plant protection products.